HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080703920
Bassin de Balé
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 : Kita
Sub-basin area
582,4km²
Upstream area
2 036,6km²
Discharge
7,99m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Balé835 km²
- Bassin de Balé239 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KitaKayes · Mali580.2 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 9 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 100mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
120mm/an
PET
2 002mm
AET
850mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
182cm
Forest
3%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)