HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080643820
Bassin de Yamé
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 : Bandiagara
Sub-basin area
762,4km²
Upstream area
2 960,6km²
Discharge
35,35m³/s
Mean elev.
412m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Yamé668 km²
- Bassin de Yamé426 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BandiagaraMopti · Mali759.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
234.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
116 distinct species · 265 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 de Yamé : 14 espèces + 1 bulle famille, 8 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 7.6%, 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
514mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
246mm/an
PET
1 979mm
AET
433mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
195cm
Forest
0%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)