HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080713770
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bigene, Goudomp, Sédhiou, Ziguinchor
Sub-basin area
374,1km²
Upstream area
7 816,5km²
Discharge
47,36m³/s
Mean elev.
21m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 227mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
426mm/an
PET
1 907mm
AET
793mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
67cm
Forest
67%
Crops
20%
Urban
2%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)