HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080025070
Bassin · #1080025070
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 : Bonthe
Sub-basin area
39,8km²
Upstream area
7 903,7km²
Discharge
451,49m³/s
Mean elev.
8m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Jong2116 km²
- Bassin · #1080919880349 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 39.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sherbro River Estuary
IUCN Not ReportedMarine Protected Area
3.63 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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,7°C
Annual rain
3 464mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,57
Runoff
2 000mm/an
PET
1 489mm
AET
1 162mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
21cm
Forest
94%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)