HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080655190
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 : Foundiougne, Kaolack, Nioro du Rip
Sub-basin area
769,8km²
Upstream area
769,8km²
Discharge
1m³/s
Mean elev.
18m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 378.3 km²49.3% of basin
- Nioro du RipKaolack · Senegal207.8 km²27.1% of basin
- FoundiougneFatick · Senegal180.8 km²23.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Foret de Wélor
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
35.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
280 distinct species · 4 164 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
665mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
44mm/an
PET
2 067mm
AET
561mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
31cm
Forest
0%
Crops
62%
Urban
3%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)