HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080293340
Bassin de Abitau River
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 : Division No. 18, Fort Smith
Sub-basin area
492,3km²
Upstream area
3 126,1km²
Discharge
9,05m³/s
Mean elev.
400m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #8080290200917 km²
- Bassin de Abitau River519 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Division No. 18303.4 km²61.3% of basin
- Fort Smith191.6 km²38.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tazin Lake
IUCN IbRepresentative Area Ecological Reserve
302.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 7 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°
-4,4°C
Annual rain
353mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
58mm/an
PET
501mm
AET
306mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
100cm
Forest
35%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
61%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)