HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080600830
Bassin · #1080600830
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 : Niafunké, Youwarou
Sub-basin area
105,4km²
Upstream area
29 508,8km²
Discharge
10,87m³/s
Mean elev.
267m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080603340914 km²
- Bassin · #108060303092 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 61.4 km²58.4% of basin
- 43.6 km²41.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Delta Intérieur du Niger
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
68.58 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
38 distinct species · 38 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
278mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
21mm/an
PET
2 084mm
AET
231mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
9cm
Forest
0%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)