HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080878820
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 3 administrative regions : Ouadda, Ouanda Djallé, Yalinga
Sub-basin area
1 036,2km²
Upstream area
1 036,2km²
Discharge
1,83m³/s
Mean elev.
911m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 986.8 km²95.6% of basin
- 44.6 km²4.3% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Yata-Ngaya
IUCN IVFaunal Reserve
14.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
1 114mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
70mm/an
PET
1 973mm
AET
910mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
248cm
Forest
99%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)