HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080924210
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
1 599,6km²
Upstream area
20 022,5km²
Discharge
94,48m³/s
Mean elev.
698m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kotto1227 km²
- Bassin de Kotto752 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 814.0 km²51.1% of basin
- 778.9 km²48.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kotto
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
791.92 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 277mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
318mm/an
PET
1 957mm
AET
1 008mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
199cm
Forest
22%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
50%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)