HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080986900
Bassin de Cestos River
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 : Butaw, Gbarzon, Tappita, Timbo
Sub-basin area
1 447,7km²
Upstream area
8 400,3km²
Discharge
276,85m³/s
Mean elev.
165m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cestos River459 km²
- Bassin de Cestos River203 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 744.0 km²51.6% of basin
- 652.5 km²45.3% of basin
- 43.7 km²3.0% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
2 530mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
1 457mm/an
PET
1 773mm
AET
1 519mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
90cm
Forest
91%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)