HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080714930
Bassin de Mouhoun
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 : Boulkiemdé, Kourwéogo, Sanguié
Sub-basin area
451,8km²
Upstream area
451,8km²
Discharge
0,35m³/s
Mean elev.
310m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 446.6 km²99.2% of basin
- 3.2 km²0.7% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 13 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
744mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
24mm/an
PET
2 014mm
AET
627mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
124cm
Forest
0%
Crops
31%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)