HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080679660
Bassin · #1080679660
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 : Bam, Sanmatenga
Sub-basin area
271,1km²
Upstream area
1 525,8km²
Discharge
0,37m³/s
Mean elev.
328m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080673930788 km²
- Bassin · #1080673920467 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 261.9 km²97.0% of basin
- 8.2 km²3.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lac Bam
IUCN VIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.70 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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,2°C
Annual rain
561mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
2 038mm
AET
472mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
169cm
Forest
0%
Crops
22%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)