HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080610850
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 1 administrative regions : Ansongo
Sub-basin area
185,1km²
Upstream area
532 804,4km²
Discharge
793,86m³/s
Mean elev.
263m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger1576 km²
- Bassin du Niger79 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- AnsongoGao · Mali184.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ansongo Giraffe Reserve
IUCN IVPartial Wildlife Reserve
123.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 12 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°
28,9°C
Annual rain
272mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
45mm/an
PET
2 075mm
AET
227mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
150cm
Forest
0%
Crops
8%
Urban
1%
Protected
65%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)