HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080648070
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
491,4km²
Upstream area
491,4km²
Discharge
0,46m³/s
Mean elev.
48m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 477.8 km²97.6% of basin
- KoupentoumTambacounda · Senegal11.8 km²2.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 20 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
643mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
2 098mm
AET
542mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
45cm
Forest
0%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)