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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Casamance222 km²
- Bassin de Casamance16 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 151.8 km²40.7% of basin
- 115.2 km²30.9% of basin
- ZiguinchorZiguinchor · Senegal104.7 km²28.1% of basin
- BigeneCacheu · Guinea-Bissau0.9 km²0.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
AMP Kassa-Balantacounda
IUCN VIMarine Protected Area
127.15 km² overlap
Foret de Blaz
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
30.74 km² overlap
Foret de Bissine
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
12.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
60 distinct species · 413 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 12 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 : 10 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
26,7°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)