HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080666460
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
274,6km²
Upstream area
144 127,9km²
Discharge
374,42m³/s
Mean elev.
130m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ketiou2570 km²
- Bassin de Sénégal116 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 255.8 km²93.5% of basin
- KayesKayes · Mali17.7 km²6.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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
794mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
52mm/an
PET
2 002mm
AET
670mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
219cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)