HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080818260
Bassin de El Kani
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 across 2 countries : Lac Léré, Mayo Kani
Sub-basin area
119,1km²
Upstream area
826,6km²
Discharge
3,34m³/s
Mean elev.
367m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080815570168 km²
- Bassin de El Kani26 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 89.8 km²75.7% of basin
- 28.8 km²24.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 19 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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
824mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
133mm/an
PET
1 988mm
AET
696mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
66cm
Forest
0%
Crops
20%
Urban
12%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)