HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080697470
Bassin de Nakembé
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 4 administrative regions : Bam, Passoré, Sanmatenga, Yatenga
Sub-basin area
790,2km²
Upstream area
790,2km²
Discharge
0,36m³/s
Mean elev.
339m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 608.6 km²77.3% of basin
- 169.5 km²21.5% of basin
- 8.7 km²1.1% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 29 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°
28,1°C
Annual rain
645mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
17mm/an
PET
2 024mm
AET
543mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
243cm
Forest
0%
Crops
21%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)