HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080965840
Bassin de Chenal de Cotonou
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 : Abomey-Calavi, Aguégués, Cotonou, Sô-Ava
Sub-basin area
43,9km²
Upstream area
58 742km²
Discharge
272,42m³/s
Mean elev.
1m
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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
1 219mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
411mm/an
PET
1 394mm
AET
954mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
7cm
Forest
13%
Crops
7%
Urban
33%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)