HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080832320
Bassin de مايو كيبي
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 across 2 countries : Bénoué, Lac Léré, Mayo Louti
Sub-basin area
227,1km²
Upstream area
19 138,4km²
Discharge
91,23m³/s
Mean elev.
294m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mayo Elsion1649 km²
- Bassin de El Binder203 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 77.6 km²34.3% of basin
- 77.1 km²34.1% of basin
- 71.5 km²31.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 57 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°
27,7°C
Annual rain
865mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
146mm/an
PET
1 971mm
AET
730mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
207cm
Forest
0%
Crops
23%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)