HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080704770
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 2 administrative regions : Bafoulabé, Kita
Sub-basin area
193,3km²
Upstream area
2 993,8km²
Discharge
11,74m³/s
Mean elev.
270m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Balé523 km²
- Bassin de Balé46 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KitaKayes · Mali169.8 km²88.1% of basin
- 22.8 km²11.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
1 064mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
131mm/an
PET
1 985mm
AET
828mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
226cm
Forest
5%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)