Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080685880

Bassin de Falémé

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 across 2 countries : Kéniéba, Saraya

Pfafstetter: 14638033

Sub-basin area

11,8km²

Upstream area

18 089,6km²

Discharge

101,18m³/s

Mean elev.

88m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Saraya
    Kédougou · Senegal
    9.0 km²
    76.7% of basin
  • Kéniéba
    Kayes · Mali
    2.8 km²
    23.3% of basin

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 distinct species · 1 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

1 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

28,8°C

Annual rain

940mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,53

Runoff

69mm/an

PET

2 005mm

AET

773mm

Mean slope

1,2°

Water table

77cm

Forest

0%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)