HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080647720
Bassin de Saloum
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 : Koungheul, Koupentoum
Sub-basin area
549,2km²
Upstream area
2 872,8km²
Discharge
3,03m³/s
Mean elev.
45m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Saloum876 km²
- Bassin de Saloum393 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 543.0 km²99.2% of basin
- KoupentoumTambacounda · Senegal4.2 km²0.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Siné-Saloum
IUCN Not ReportedNot Reported
225.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 11 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
603mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
28mm/an
PET
2 117mm
AET
507mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
97cm
Forest
0%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
41%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)