HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080673750
Bassin du 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 1 administrative regions : Bankass
Sub-basin area
7,7km²
Upstream area
18 215,2km²
Discharge
1,68m³/s
Mean elev.
257m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wasso2273 km²
- Bassin de Sourou2195 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BankassMopti · Mali7.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Plaine Inondable du Sourou
IUCN VIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
4.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
566mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
38mm/an
PET
2 020mm
AET
477mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
9cm
Forest
0%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)