HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080678980
Bassin de Faga
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 : Namentenga, Séno
Sub-basin area
128,2km²
Upstream area
8 505,7km²
Discharge
6,73m³/s
Mean elev.
280m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10806762101126 km²
- Bassin · #1080676220773 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 73.9 km²57.9% of basin
- 53.8 km²42.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Barrage de Yalgo
IUCN VIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
5.84 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
62 distinct species · 134 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°
28,6°C
Annual rain
516mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
27mm/an
PET
2 112mm
AET
434mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
109cm
Forest
0%
Crops
24%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)