HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080654600
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 3 administrative regions : Fatick, Foundiougne, Kaolack
Sub-basin area
481,1km²
Upstream area
14 096,8km²
Discharge
8,87m³/s
Mean elev.
7m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Saloum195 km²
- Bassin de Saloum10 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 296.6 km²61.9% of basin
- 94.0 km²19.6% of basin
- FoundiougneFatick · Senegal88.8 km²18.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
218 distinct species · 759 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Saloum : 26 espèces reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
613mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
37mm/an
PET
2 080mm
AET
516mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
26cm
Forest
0%
Crops
15%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)