HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080884480
Bassin de Kaouadja
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 3 countries : Buram, Raja, Yalinga
Sub-basin area
914,8km²
Upstream area
915,1km²
Discharge
1,34m³/s
Mean elev.
831m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 904.2 km²99.3% of basin
- 6.8 km²0.7% of basin
- Buram0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Boro
IUCN VIGame Reserve
0.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 212 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°
24,3°C
Annual rain
1 066mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
53mm/an
PET
2 019mm
AET
894mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
208cm
Forest
79%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)