HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080648300
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 1 administrative regions : Malème Hodar
Sub-basin area
81,2km²
Upstream area
3 280km²
Discharge
2,15m³/s
Mean elev.
31m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080645980508 km²
- Bassin · #1080645970352 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Malème HodarKaffrine · Senegal80.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Siné-Saloum
IUCN Not ReportedNot Reported
12.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 4 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
594mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
24mm/an
PET
2 124mm
AET
499mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
90cm
Forest
0%
Crops
34%
Urban
0%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)