HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080915720
Bassin de Kan
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 : Béré, Gbeke, Marahoué
Sub-basin area
692,7km²
Upstream area
26 769,2km²
Discharge
196,21m³/s
Mean elev.
243m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kan1065 km²
- Bassin de Bandama blanc180 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 343.1 km²49.7% of basin
- 243.3 km²35.3% of basin
- 103.4 km²15.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
54 distinct species · 932 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
1 121mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
186mm/an
PET
1 820mm
AET
949mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
164cm
Forest
19%
Crops
26%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)