HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080918370
Bassin de Zou
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 : Dassa-Zoumè, Djidja, Savalou
Sub-basin area
497km²
Upstream area
4 291,7km²
Discharge
23,38m³/s
Mean elev.
135m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zou754 km²
- Bassin de Zou629 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 419.7 km²84.8% of basin
- 75.1 km²15.2% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Atchérigbé
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
14.34 km² overlap
Dan
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
11.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
663 distinct species · 2 684 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Zou : 13 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 080mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
249mm/an
PET
1 794mm
AET
914mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
142cm
Forest
91%
Crops
68%
Urban
2%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)