HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080715040
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 2 administrative regions : Goudomp, Sédhiou
Sub-basin area
223,9km²
Upstream area
223,9km²
Discharge
2,66m³/s
Mean elev.
26m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 220.2 km²98.7% of basin
- 2.9 km²1.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Foret du Boudie
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
36.41 km² overlap
AMP Kassa-Balantacounda
IUCN VIMarine Protected Area
34.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 8 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
1 169mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
375mm/an
PET
1 918mm
AET
791mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
67cm
Forest
39%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)