HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080935710
Bassin de Fafa
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 : Batangafo, Bouca, Kaga-Bandoro
Sub-basin area
2 133,4km²
Upstream area
2 133,4km²
Discharge
12,28m³/s
Mean elev.
496m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1603.5 km²75.5% of basin
- 457.1 km²21.5% of basin
- 63.6 km²3.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 19 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 345mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
188mm/an
PET
2 150mm
AET
1 115mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
133cm
Forest
51%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)