HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080699610
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
Sub-basin area
120,7km²
Upstream area
12 422,5km²
Discharge
86,14m³/s
Mean elev.
127m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Falémé1315 km²
- Bassin de Daléma875 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KéniébaKayes · Mali64.9 km²53.9% of basin
- 55.4 km²46.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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
1 075mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
125mm/an
PET
1 976mm
AET
812mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
131cm
Forest
37%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)