HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080961010
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 2 administrative regions : Bozoum, Paoua
Sub-basin area
853,9km²
Upstream area
853,9km²
Discharge
10,4m³/s
Mean elev.
804m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 789.2 km²92.8% of basin
- 61.0 km²7.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 119 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
1 342mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
379mm/an
PET
1 775mm
AET
991mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
247cm
Forest
89%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)