HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080964690
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 : Bossangoa, Bozoum
Sub-basin area
242,7km²
Upstream area
8 107,9km²
Discharge
72,51m³/s
Mean elev.
537m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10809684401470 km²
- Bassin · #10809684301065 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 151.6 km²62.7% of basin
- 90.0 km²37.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 21 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
1 396mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
275mm/an
PET
1 927mm
AET
1 060mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
149cm
Forest
74%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)