HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080697660
Bassin du Sourou
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 : Kossi, Sourou
Sub-basin area
143,7km²
Upstream area
27 486,5km²
Discharge
49,91m³/s
Mean elev.
257m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Sourou1878 km²
- Bassin du Sourou27 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 123.6 km²86.3% of basin
- 19.6 km²13.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
La Vallée du Sourou
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
32.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
63 distinct species · 67 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°
28,5°C
Annual rain
624mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
24mm/an
PET
2 016mm
AET
526mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
12cm
Forest
0%
Crops
11%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)