HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080715290
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, Farim, Goudomp, Sédhiou
Sub-basin area
628,5km²
Upstream area
6 980,4km²
Discharge
36,29m³/s
Mean elev.
25m
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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
1 251mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
461mm/an
PET
1 897mm
AET
812mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
84cm
Forest
42%
Crops
15%
Urban
2%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)