HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080715750
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
16,3km²
Upstream area
7 220,4km²
Discharge
39,25m³/s
Mean elev.
7m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Casamance629 km²
- Bassin de Casamance224 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 14.7 km²90.8% of basin
- 1.5 km²9.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
AMP Kassa-Balantacounda
IUCN VIMarine Protected Area
11.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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 190mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
427mm/an
PET
1 914mm
AET
789mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
40cm
Forest
78%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)