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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
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)