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
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
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)