HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081153870
Bassin de Kouyou
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 : Boundji, Makoua, Owando
Sub-basin area
584,8km²
Upstream area
6 652,2km²
Discharge
141,09m³/s
Mean elev.
361m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kouyou357 km²
- Bassin de Kouyou273 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 376.9 km²64.7% of basin
- 199.3 km²34.2% of basin
- 5.9 km²1.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tchicapika-Owando
IUCN VIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
80.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 710mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
376mm/an
PET
1 665mm
AET
1 430mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
31cm
Forest
76%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)