Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080713990

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 2 administrative regions : Kita, Kéniéba

Pfafstetter: 14680503

Sub-basin area

502,3km²

Upstream area

22 399km²

Discharge

219,17m³/s

Mean elev.

304m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin du Bafing744 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Kita
    Kayes · Mali
    298.0 km²
    59.5% of basin
  • Kéniéba
    Kayes · Mali
    202.4 km²
    40.5% of basin

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

Species present

28 distinct species · 179 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

179 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 160
160–159
10–159
7–9
< 7

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°

27,3°C

Annual rain

1 184mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,41

Runoff

136mm/an

PET

1 999mm

AET

880mm

Mean slope

3,3°

Water table

293cm

Forest

14%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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