HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080713200
Bassin de 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 across 2 countries : Farim, Goudomp, Sédhiou
Sub-basin area
480,1km²
Upstream area
480,1km²
Discharge
5,08m³/s
Mean elev.
38m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 407.0 km²85.1% of basin
- 71.1 km²14.9% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Foret du Balmadou
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
102.36 km² overlap
AMP Kassa-Balantacounda
IUCN VIMarine Protected Area
10.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
207 distinct species · 430 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Casamance : 17 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,9°C
Annual rain
1 186mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
358mm/an
PET
1 935mm
AET
811mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
101cm
Forest
55%
Crops
13%
Urban
1%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)