HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080632050
Bassin du Falémé
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 3 administrative regions across 3 countries : Bakel, Kayes, Sélibaby
Sub-basin area
1 225km²
Upstream area
29 992,9km²
Discharge
112,96m³/s
Mean elev.
57m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sanokole1310 km²
- Bassin de Falémé509 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 722.6 km²59.2% of basin
- KayesKayes · Mali497.9 km²40.8% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Falémé
IUCN IVClassified Forest
61.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
100 distinct species · 240 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 15 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin du Falémé : 14 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 1 bulle famille, 10 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 9.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,8°C
Annual rain
570mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
43mm/an
PET
2 093mm
AET
479mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
100cm
Forest
0%
Crops
10%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)