HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080683480
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
514,4km²
Upstream area
19 528km²
Discharge
29,98m³/s
Mean elev.
257m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080674140327 km²
- Bassin du Sourou5 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BankassMopti · Mali512.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Plaine Inondable du Sourou
IUCN VIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
196.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 20 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
583mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
42mm/an
PET
2 015mm
AET
490mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
7cm
Forest
0%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)