HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080865860
Bassin de Chari
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, Grande Sido, Ndélé
Sub-basin area
1 536,7km²
Upstream area
64 648,3km²
Discharge
253,46m³/s
Mean elev.
382m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bangoran377 km²
- Bassin de Chari26 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1147.7 km²75.0% of basin
- 242.5 km²15.8% of basin
- 140.1 km²9.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Aouk
IUCN Not ReportedHunting reserve
31.37 km² overlap
Bamingui-Bangoran
IUCN IINational Park
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
26 distinct species · 42 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
1 056mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
139mm/an
PET
2 042mm
AET
886mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
8cm
Forest
6%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)