Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080644460

Bassin de Papara

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 : Kayes

Pfafstetter: 14650008

Sub-basin area

694,4km²

Upstream area

694,5km²

Discharge

0,76m³/s

Mean elev.

204m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Sénégal708 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Kayes
    Kayes · Mali
    691.9 km²
    100.0% of basin

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Paparah

    IUCN IV

    Classified Forest

    0.64 km² overlap

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

Species present

8 distinct species · 33 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

33 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 16
16–15
16–15
12–15
< 12

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°

28,3°C

Annual rain

742mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,63

Runoff

29mm/an

PET

2 023mm

AET

626mm

Mean slope

2,7°

Water table

443cm

Forest

0%

Crops

13%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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