HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080635010
Bassin de Gorouol
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 : Tillabéry, Téra
Sub-basin area
2 602,6km²
Upstream area
54 137,9km²
Discharge
46,12m³/s
Mean elev.
266m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Béli575 km²
- Bassin de Gorouol231 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2574.2 km²99.3% of basin
- 18.9 km²0.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Kandadji
IUCN IVNature Reserve
2495.14 km² overlap
Hippopotamus Sanctuary
IUCN IbStrict Nature Reserve
61.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 59 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°
29,0°C
Annual rain
329mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
2 126mm
AET
275mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
210cm
Forest
0%
Crops
38%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)