HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080953620
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 1 administrative regions : Bouca
Sub-basin area
878,2km²
Upstream area
7 732,8km²
Discharge
51,45m³/s
Mean elev.
491m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Fafa1473 km²
- Bassin de Fafa827 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 874.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 49 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 371mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
215mm/an
PET
2 234mm
AET
1 147mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
129cm
Forest
37%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)