HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081005500
Bassin · #1081005500
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, Yaloké
Sub-basin area
1 736,2km²
Upstream area
1 736,2km²
Discharge
15,3m³/s
Mean elev.
606m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1724.1 km²99.7% of basin
- 2.8 km²0.2% of basin
- 1.8 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 19 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 472mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
293mm/an
PET
1 987mm
AET
1 186mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
144cm
Forest
30%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)