Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080920880

Bassin de Kam

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 1 administrative regions : Gashaka

Pfafstetter: 14226065

Sub-basin area

202,6km²

Upstream area

3 950,7km²

Discharge

83,55m³/s

Mean elev.

852m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kam258 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Gashaka-Gumti

    IUCN II

    National Park

    151.33 km² overlap

  • Seri

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    5.51 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

18 distinct species · 24 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

24 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 23
23–22
23–22
23–22
< 23

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

23,8°C

Annual rain

1 523mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,13

Runoff

600mm/an

PET

1 748mm

AET

1 059mm

Mean slope

13,5°

Water table

523cm

Forest

26%

Crops

11%

Urban

0%

Protected

78%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)