Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080704900

Bassin du Bafing

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 : Bafoulabé, Kita, Kéniéba

Pfafstetter: 14680501

Sub-basin area

744,3km²

Upstream area

23 603,8km²

Discharge

223,65m³/s

Mean elev.

286m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Bafing2421 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Kita
    Kayes · Mali
    390.0 km²
    52.6% of basin
  • Kéniéba
    Kayes · Mali
    345.7 km²
    46.6% of basin
  • Bafoulabé
    Kayes · Mali
    5.7 km²
    0.8% of basin

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Kouroufing

    IUCN II

    National Park

    49.58 km² overlap

  • Bafing

    IUCN IV

    Chimpanzee Sanctuary

    0.70 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

5 distinct species · 12 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

12 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 9
9–8
9–8
9–8
< 9

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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 122mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,44

Runoff

129mm/an

PET

1 990mm

AET

853mm

Mean slope

2,0°

Water table

203cm

Forest

17%

Crops

3%

Urban

0%

Protected

8%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)