HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080871950
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 : Bamingui, Barh Köh, Ndélé
Sub-basin area
26,1km²
Upstream area
51 646,2km²
Discharge
231,5m³/s
Mean elev.
377m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Vassako265 km²
- Bassin de Chari1 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 15.2 km²58.6% of basin
- 10.2 km²39.2% of basin
- 0.6 km²2.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bamingui-Bangoran
IUCN IINational Park
15.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 070mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
149mm/an
PET
2 043mm
AET
897mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
22cm
Forest
15%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
61%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)