HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080561810
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 : Gourma-Rharous, Tombouctou
Sub-basin area
162,5km²
Upstream area
379 818,2km²
Discharge
563,32m³/s
Mean elev.
265m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger588 km²
- Bassin du Niger252 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 155.8 km²96.2% of basin
- 6.2 km²3.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
28,4°C
Annual rain
186mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,91
Runoff
61mm/an
PET
2 160mm
AET
153mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
28cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)