HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080865850
Bassin de Bahr Aouk
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 : Barh Köh, Lac Iro, Ndélé
Sub-basin area
1 087,7km²
Upstream area
136 569,8km²
Discharge
113,67m³/s
Mean elev.
379m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arap2072 km²
- Bassin de Bahr Aouk335 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 604.2 km²55.8% of basin
- 342.8 km²31.6% of basin
- 136.1 km²12.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Aouk
IUCN Not ReportedHunting reserve
464.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 25 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
1 037mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
126mm/an
PET
2 045mm
AET
873mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
8cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
43%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)