HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080828550
Bassin de Ouémé
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 4 administrative regions : Copargo, Djougou Rural, Djougou Urbain, N'Dali
Sub-basin area
1 324,6km²
Upstream area
1 324,6km²
Discharge
7,47m³/s
Mean elev.
381m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1094.9 km²83.0% of basin
- 213.1 km²16.2% of basin
- 11.1 km²0.8% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Bellefoungou
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
6.94 km² overlap
Ouémé Superieur
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
541 distinct species · 4 890 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 177mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
243mm/an
PET
1 911mm
AET
915mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
106cm
Forest
51%
Crops
17%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)