HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080671770
Bassin · #1080671770
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 4 administrative regions : Bam, Namentenga, Sanmatenga, Soum
Sub-basin area
2 604,9km²
Upstream area
2 605,3km²
Discharge
1,72m³/s
Mean elev.
310m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2291.4 km²88.3% of basin
- 295.8 km²11.4% of basin
- 7.6 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 72 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°
28,3°C
Annual rain
542mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
22mm/an
PET
2 055mm
AET
456mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
132cm
Forest
0%
Crops
25%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)