HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080694980
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 1 administrative regions : Bounkiling
Sub-basin area
29,4km²
Upstream area
1 440,2km²
Discharge
3,8m³/s
Mean elev.
29m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sankodou927 km²
- Bassin de Sankodou484 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BounkilingSédhiou · Senegal29.3 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 11 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
928mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
143mm/an
PET
2 021mm
AET
749mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
86cm
Forest
25%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)