HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080816410
Bassin de Rivière Kara
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 : Dankpen, Kéran, Oti-Sud
Sub-basin area
1 011,9km²
Upstream area
6 024,8km²
Discharge
96,7m³/s
Mean elev.
165m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Kara998 km²
- Bassin du Kara710 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 407.7 km²40.5% of basin
- 348.9 km²34.6% of basin
- 251.2 km²24.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Oti-Kéran
IUCN IINational Park
22.26 km² overlap
Parc national de la Keran
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
22.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 124 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°
27,9°C
Annual rain
1 126mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
478mm/an
PET
1 948mm
AET
910mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
92cm
Forest
31%
Crops
28%
Urban
2%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)