HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080956570
Bassin de Ouham
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 : Bozoum, Markounda, Paoua
Sub-basin area
1 013,2km²
Upstream area
10 352km²
Discharge
123,47m³/s
Mean elev.
673m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ouham920 km²
- Bassin de Ouham854 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 779.5 km²77.3% of basin
- 180.5 km²17.9% of basin
- 48.9 km²4.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 36 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 327mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
344mm/an
PET
1 848mm
AET
991mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
170cm
Forest
95%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)