HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080878620
Bassin de Kotto
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Birao, Buram, Ouadda, Ouanda Djallé, Yalinga
Sub-basin area
2 406,5km²
Upstream area
2 407,3km²
Discharge
2,71m³/s
Mean elev.
886m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1683.7 km²70.3% of basin
- 669.1 km²27.9% of basin
- 33.8 km²1.4% of basin
- Buram9.7 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Yata-Ngaya
IUCN IVFaunal Reserve
2138.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 3 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
1 045mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
47mm/an
PET
2 004mm
AET
876mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
254cm
Forest
99%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
89%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)