HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080550770
Bassin du Niger
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 : Bourem, Gourma-Rharous
Sub-basin area
328km²
Upstream area
415 271,6km²
Discharge
705,54m³/s
Mean elev.
277m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger582 km²
- Bassin du Niger355 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BouremGao · Mali280.1 km²85.7% of basin
- 46.8 km²14.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 17 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°
29,3°C
Annual rain
156mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
70mm/an
PET
2 163mm
AET
128mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
183cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)