HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080658410
Bassin de Nimbarou
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 across 2 countries : Koro, Loroum, Yatenga
Sub-basin area
2 345,4km²
Upstream area
2 345,7km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1139.2 km²48.8% of basin
- 999.0 km²42.8% of basin
- 198.6 km²8.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cône d'épandage de Banh
IUCN VIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
94.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
50 distinct species · 73 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°
28,5°C
Annual rain
511mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,75
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
2 062mm
AET
429mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
133cm
Forest
0%
Crops
26%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)