HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080025460
Bassin de Great Scarcies
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 : Kambia
Sub-basin area
52,8km²
Upstream area
52,8km²
Discharge
3,74m³/s
Mean elev.
3m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 47.7 km²90.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Scarcies River Estuary
IUCN Not ReportedMarine Protected Area
52.59 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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
3 122mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
2 253mm/an
PET
1 540mm
AET
1 061mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
4cm
Forest
67%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)