HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080955840
Bassin de Ouaka
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 2 administrative regions : Bakala, Ippy
Sub-basin area
431,4km²
Upstream area
8 861,8km²
Discharge
70,38m³/s
Mean elev.
557m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ouaka715 km²
- Bassin · #1080951230466 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 315.4 km²73.4% of basin
- 114.1 km²26.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
1 366mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
283mm/an
PET
1 911mm
AET
1 110mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
180cm
Forest
64%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)