HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081077160
Bassin de Motaba
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 1 administrative regions : Dongou
Sub-basin area
183,3km²
Upstream area
3 113,8km²
Discharge
30,58m³/s
Mean elev.
436m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mokala1604 km²
- Bassin de Motaba1326 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 182.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Grands affluents
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
179.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 681mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
259mm/an
PET
1 705mm
AET
1 339mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
156cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)