HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080937710
Bassin · #1080937710
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 4 administrative regions : Bakala, Bamingui, Ippy, Ndélé
Sub-basin area
1 673,1km²
Upstream area
1 673,3km²
Discharge
17,71m³/s
Mean elev.
517m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 849.0 km²51.0% of basin
- 813.0 km²48.8% of basin
- 3.4 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Zone Pilote de la Sangba
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
157.77 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 308mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
307mm/an
PET
1 937mm
AET
1 056mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
125cm
Forest
87%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)