HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080874300
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, Grande Sido
Sub-basin area
113,3km²
Upstream area
45 522,5km²
Discharge
219,26m³/s
Mean elev.
385m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Moyenne-Sido4097 km²
- Bassin de Gribingui11 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 89.7 km²79.5% of basin
- 22.1 km²19.6% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bamingui-Bangoran
IUCN IINational Park
89.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 4 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 081mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
151mm/an
PET
2 040mm
AET
903mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
27cm
Forest
40%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
80%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)