HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080659570
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 2 administrative regions : Bafoulabé, Kayes
Sub-basin area
282,3km²
Upstream area
145 336km²
Discharge
374,64m³/s
Mean elev.
155m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sénégal926 km²
- Bassin de Sénégal275 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KayesKayes · Mali281.2 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bagouko
IUCN IVClassified Forest
34.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 19 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°
28,4°C
Annual rain
769mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
47mm/an
PET
2 005mm
AET
649mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
477cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)