HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080673440
Bassin de Koukou
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, Kita
Sub-basin area
1 615,4km²
Upstream area
1 615,4km²
Discharge
5,44m³/s
Mean elev.
220m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1606.8 km²99.8% of basin
- KitaKayes · Mali2.6 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Dioubéba
IUCN IVClassified Forest
109.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 144 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
891mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
108mm/an
PET
1 973mm
AET
745mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
311cm
Forest
10%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)