HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080880170
Bassin · #1080880170
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 : Bénoué, Faro, Mayo Rey
Sub-basin area
407,8km²
Upstream area
407,9km²
Discharge
4,2m³/s
Mean elev.
518m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 262.0 km²64.5% of basin
- 143.7 km²35.4% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 9 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
1 358mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
325mm/an
PET
1 869mm
AET
961mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
295cm
Forest
46%
Crops
32%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)