HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080912010
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 2 administrative regions : Ouadda, Yalinga
Sub-basin area
752km²
Upstream area
4 654km²
Discharge
22,81m³/s
Mean elev.
732m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080902470416 km²
- Bassin · #108090246073 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 710.2 km²94.8% of basin
- 38.7 km²5.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kotto
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
0.03 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
1 231mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
264mm/an
PET
1 968mm
AET
981mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
254cm
Forest
79%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)