HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081157950
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 1 administrative regions : Owando
Sub-basin area
145,5km²
Upstream area
13 063,5km²
Discharge
240,32m³/s
Mean elev.
325m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kouyou1722 km²
- Bassin de Kouyou1714 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 144.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tchicapika-Owando
IUCN VIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
80.88 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
1 671mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
347mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
1 405mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
43cm
Forest
76%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)