HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080605360
Bassin · #1080605360
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 : Ménaka
Sub-basin area
783,3km²
Upstream area
783,4km²
Discharge
0,09m³/s
Mean elev.
303m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 intersecting protected areas
Ansongo Giraffe Reserve
IUCN IVPartial Wildlife Reserve
780.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
29 distinct species · 31 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°
29,6°C
Annual rain
251mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
2 158mm
AET
209mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
267cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)