HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080673260
Bassin de Sourou
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 across 2 countries : Bankass, Koro, Sourou, Yatenga
Sub-basin area
2 195,1km²
Upstream area
15 934,9km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
270m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10806623702100 km²
- Bassin · #108066247041 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1153.8 km²52.8% of basin
- 634.3 km²29.0% of basin
- BankassMopti · Mali276.9 km²12.7% of basin
- 121.9 km²5.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Plaine Inondable du Sourou
IUCN VIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
22.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 42 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
559mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
19mm/an
PET
2 035mm
AET
471mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
35cm
Forest
0%
Crops
17%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)