HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080932990
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 1 administrative regions : Yalinga
Sub-basin area
2 571,4km²
Upstream area
2 571,4km²
Discharge
29,44m³/s
Mean elev.
715m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2560.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kotto
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
43.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
1 347mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
356mm/an
PET
1 929mm
AET
1 048mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
194cm
Forest
18%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)