HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080645400
Bassin · #1080645400
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 : Koupentoum
Sub-basin area
292,3km²
Upstream area
292,5km²
Discharge
0,43m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KoupentoumTambacounda · Senegal291.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ferlo-Sud
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
11.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 10 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°
28,1°C
Annual rain
682mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
48mm/an
PET
2 095mm
AET
575mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
40cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)