HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081022220
Bassin de Kotto
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 : Bakouma, Gambo-Ouango, Mingala
Sub-basin area
2 467,9km²
Upstream area
76 562,7km²
Discharge
589,68m³/s
Mean elev.
559m
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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
1 547mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
339mm/an
PET
1 811mm
AET
1 236mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
212cm
Forest
63%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)