HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080025350
Bassin de Bankasoka
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 : Kambia, Port Loko
Sub-basin area
1 789,4km²
Upstream area
1 789,4km²
Discharge
0,66m³/s
Mean elev.
30m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1707.0 km²95.8% of basin
- 21.3 km²1.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Scarcies River Estuary
IUCN Not ReportedMarine Protected Area
401.67 km² overlap
Sierra Leone River Estuary
IUCN Not ReportedMarine Protected Area
176.20 km² overlap
Port Loko
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
8.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
347 distinct species · 832 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
2 894mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,46
Runoff
2 202mm/an
PET
1 549mm
AET
1 105mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
35cm
Forest
42%
Crops
5%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)