HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080789390
Bassin de Karma
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Baguirmi, Guéra, Loug Chari
Sub-basin area
164,3km²
Upstream area
13 270,9km²
Discharge
49,16m³/s
Mean elev.
343m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Karma1128 km²
- Bassin de Karma148 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 70.3 km²43.0% of basin
- 53.6 km²32.8% of basin
- 39.7 km²24.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,4°C
Annual rain
875mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
195mm/an
PET
2 105mm
AET
738mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
5cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)