HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080833770
Bassin de Mayo Elsion
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-Dallah
Sub-basin area
1 649,4km²
Upstream area
16 089,6km²
Discharge
81,23m³/s
Mean elev.
317m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,8°C
Annual rain
849mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
145mm/an
PET
1 962mm
AET
717mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
131cm
Forest
0%
Crops
19%
Urban
1%
Protected
38%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)