Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080666450

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 3 administrative regions : Bafoulabé, Kayes, Kéniéba

Pfafstetter: 14670006

Sub-basin area

925,9km²

Upstream area

926km²

Discharge

1,69m³/s

Mean elev.

239m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Sénégal282 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Bafoulabé
    Kayes · Mali
    676.6 km²
    73.4% of basin
  • Kayes
    Kayes · Mali
    174.0 km²
    18.9% of basin
  • Kéniéba
    Kayes · Mali
    71.8 km²
    7.8% of basin

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

5 distinct species · 47 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

47 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 19
19–18
19–18
16–18
< 16

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

27,9°C

Annual rain

862mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,56

Runoff

52mm/an

PET

1 961mm

AET

723mm

Mean slope

2,2°

Water table

297cm

Forest

0%

Crops

8%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)