Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080633540

Bassin de Sénégal

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 across 2 countries : Kayes, Sélibaby

Pfafstetter: 14650001

Sub-basin area

722,1km²

Upstream area

255 072,1km²

Discharge

447,59m³/s

Mean elev.

48m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Falémé

    IUCN IV

    Classified Forest

    11.35 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

11 distinct species · 3 106 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

3 106 obs · 11 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2 056
706–2 055
84–705
27–83
< 27

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

29,5°C

Annual rain

572mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,73

Runoff

34mm/an

PET

2 125mm

AET

481mm

Mean slope

0,3°

Water table

96cm

Forest

0%

Crops

8%

Urban

1%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)