HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080703900
Bassin de la Casamance
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 3 administrative regions : Kolda, Médina Yoro Foula, Vélingara
Sub-basin area
1 403,9km²
Upstream area
1 403,9km²
Discharge
4,25m³/s
Mean elev.
50m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Médina Yoro FoulaKolda · Senegal874.5 km²62.5% of basin
- 490.4 km²35.1% of basin
- 33.7 km²2.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Foret de Bakor
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
111.62 km² overlap
Foret de Dabo
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
19.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 51 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
954mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
107mm/an
PET
2 003mm
AET
755mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
81cm
Forest
19%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)