HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080940730
Bassin de Kan
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 : Marahoué
Sub-basin area
456km²
Upstream area
20 338,2km²
Discharge
181,11m³/s
Mean elev.
212m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Marahoué490 km²
- Bassin de la Marahoué473 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 454.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Parc national de la Marahoué
IUCN IINational Park
105.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
27 distinct species · 69 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 256mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
138mm/an
PET
1 764mm
AET
1 063mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
119cm
Forest
57%
Crops
31%
Urban
2%
Protected
45%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)