HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080917520
Bassin · #1080917520
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 : Bamingui, Ippy, Ndélé
Sub-basin area
576,8km²
Upstream area
1 912,7km²
Discharge
10,63m³/s
Mean elev.
542m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080913610768 km²
- Bassin · #1080913600567 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 315.0 km²54.8% of basin
- 242.2 km²42.2% of basin
- 17.2 km²3.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Zone Pilote de la Sangba
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
574.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
76 distinct species · 384 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
1 271mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
212mm/an
PET
1 941mm
AET
1 018mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
138cm
Forest
96%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)