HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080798020
Bassin de Bahr Salamat
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 2 administrative regions : Guéra, Lac Iro
Sub-basin area
505,7km²
Upstream area
1 512,1km²
Discharge
3,26m³/s
Mean elev.
417m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bahr Salamat186 km²
- Bassin de Bahr Salamat174 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 378.0 km²75.1% of basin
- 125.6 km²24.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Bahr Salamat
IUCN IVFaunal reserve
493.92 km² overlap
Zakouma
IUCN IINational Park
9.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
880mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
70mm/an
PET
2 117mm
AET
743mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
34cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)