HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080964540
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 4 administrative regions : Bossangoa, Bozoum, Markounda, Paoua
Sub-basin area
1 745,1km²
Upstream area
13 579,3km²
Discharge
150,35m³/s
Mean elev.
599m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10809569901482 km²
- Bassin de Ouham1013 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1053.6 km²60.6% of basin
- 629.8 km²36.2% of basin
- 40.6 km²2.3% of basin
- 13.5 km²0.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 11 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
1 366mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
291mm/an
PET
1 886mm
AET
1 030mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
141cm
Forest
45%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)