HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081051660
Bassin de Achwa
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Lamwo, Magwi
Sub-basin area
405,3km²
Upstream area
28 274,6km²
Discharge
60,05m³/s
Mean elev.
696m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Achwa2040 km²
- Bassin de Achwa1687 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 402.8 km²99.8% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nimule Buffer Zone
IUCN IINational Park
1.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 15 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 131mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
33mm/an
PET
2 001mm
AET
956mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
187cm
Forest
20%
Crops
15%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)