HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080685630
Bassin de Gouaya
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 : Namentenga
Sub-basin area
126,5km²
Upstream area
1 497km²
Discharge
1,73m³/s
Mean elev.
301m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gouaya584 km²
- Bassin de Gouaya168 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 126.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Barrage de Tougouri
IUCN VIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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
563mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
32mm/an
PET
2 064mm
AET
473mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
110cm
Forest
0%
Crops
19%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)