HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080600280
Bassin · #1080600280
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
168,1km²
Upstream area
168,1km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
295m
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
167.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
28,8°C
Annual rain
340mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
15mm/an
PET
2 102mm
AET
285mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
142cm
Forest
0%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)