HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080901860
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 across 2 countries : Buram, Ouadda, Yalinga
Sub-basin area
1 706,7km²
Upstream area
5 149,9km²
Discharge
8,95m³/s
Mean elev.
792m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kotto2407 km²
- Bassin de Kotto1036 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1307.5 km²76.9% of basin
- 391.5 km²23.0% of basin
- Buram0.5 km²0.0% of basin
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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
1 136mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
115mm/an
PET
1 994mm
AET
930mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
256cm
Forest
99%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)