HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080840230
Bassin de Bahr Salamat
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 : Barh Köh, Lac Iro
Sub-basin area
2 025,8km²
Upstream area
144 860,4km²
Discharge
130,14m³/s
Mean elev.
387m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080827810342 km²
- Bassin de Bahr Salamat301 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1627.4 km²80.7% of basin
- 390.1 km²19.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bahr Salamat
IUCN IVFaunal reserve
582.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 11 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
952mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
160mm/an
PET
2 063mm
AET
804mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
36cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)