HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080888820
Bassin de Lao
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 : Dodjé, Lac Wey, Monts de Lam
Sub-basin area
238,2km²
Upstream area
3 138,2km²
Discharge
24,94m³/s
Mean elev.
458m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nya1297 km²
- Bassin de Mbagui59 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 201.4 km²84.9% of basin
- 34.8 km²14.7% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 28 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 205mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
267mm/an
PET
1 943mm
AET
893mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
102cm
Forest
13%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)