HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080978880
Bassin de Fafa
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 3 administrative regions : Bouca, Damara, Sibut
Sub-basin area
1 705,2km²
Upstream area
1 705,4km²
Discharge
12,37m³/s
Mean elev.
570m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1539.0 km²90.6% of basin
- 154.9 km²9.1% of basin
- 3.8 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 9 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 428mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
241mm/an
PET
2 068mm
AET
1 181mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
144cm
Forest
28%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)