HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080948880
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 3 administrative regions : Bria, Ouadda, Yalinga
Sub-basin area
561,7km²
Upstream area
34 299,4km²
Discharge
227,65m³/s
Mean elev.
647m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10809458401599 km²
- Bassin de Kotto1066 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 424.5 km²75.9% of basin
- 134.5 km²24.0% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
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 432mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
314mm/an
PET
1 914mm
AET
1 103mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
174cm
Forest
14%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)