HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080657320
Bassin de Sénégal
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 : Kayes
Sub-basin area
338,4km²
Upstream area
146 921,3km²
Discharge
376,95m³/s
Mean elev.
135m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Moifara1247 km²
- Bassin de Sénégal282 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KayesKayes · Mali337.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bagouko
IUCN IVClassified Forest
33.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 46 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°
28,6°C
Annual rain
741mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
41mm/an
PET
2 022mm
AET
626mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
415cm
Forest
0%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)