HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080644920
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 1 administrative regions : Kayes
Sub-basin area
888,7km²
Upstream area
148 278,6km²
Discharge
378,75m³/s
Mean elev.
116m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sénégal469 km²
- Bassin de Sénégal338 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KayesKayes · Mali885.4 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
West Dinguira
IUCN IVClassified Forest
51.64 km² overlap
East Dinguira
IUCN IVClassified Forest
29.24 km² overlap
Paparah
IUCN IVClassified Forest
4.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
80 distinct species · 199 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 12 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 Sénégal : 11 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
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
703mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
40mm/an
PET
2 043mm
AET
593mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
310cm
Forest
0%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)