HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080578850
Bassin · #1080578850
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 : Gourma-Rharous
Sub-basin area
1 182,6km²
Upstream area
1 182,8km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
297m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 intersecting protected areas
Gourma Elephant Reserve
IUCN IVPartial Wildlife Reserve
254.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 13 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°
29,1°C
Annual rain
280mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
2 128mm
AET
233mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
208cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
68%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)