HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080712100
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
835km²
Upstream area
1 215,4km²
Discharge
4,91m³/s
Mean elev.
396m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080724320259 km²
- Bassin · #1080724130121 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KitaKayes · Mali831.8 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
51 distinct species · 255 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
1 151mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
124mm/an
PET
2 006mm
AET
875mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
340cm
Forest
2%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)