HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080684840
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
71km²
Upstream area
20 823km²
Discharge
39,22m³/s
Mean elev.
257m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10806834701224 km²
- Bassin du Sourou514 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BankassMopti · Mali70.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Plaine Inondable du Sourou
IUCN VIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
46.46 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°
28,3°C
Annual rain
606mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
39mm/an
PET
2 014mm
AET
509mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
12cm
Forest
0%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)