HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080693190
Bassin de Sankodou
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 : Bounkiling, Médina Yoro Foula
Sub-basin area
926,6km²
Upstream area
926,6km²
Discharge
2,23m³/s
Mean elev.
45m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Médina Yoro FoulaKolda · Senegal896.6 km²97.1% of basin
- BounkilingSédhiou · Senegal26.5 km²2.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Foret de Pata
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
329.15 km² overlap
Foret du Guimara
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
140.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 10 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
877mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
73mm/an
PET
2 038mm
AET
728mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
66cm
Forest
6%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
51%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)