HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080716520
Bassin · #1080716520
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 5 administrative regions : Ganzourgou, Gnagna, Kouritenga, Namentenga, Sanmatenga
Sub-basin area
2 082,7km²
Upstream area
2 083,2km²
Discharge
1,71m³/s
Mean elev.
307m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 790.8 km²38.1% of basin
- 646.4 km²31.2% of basin
- 531.3 km²25.6% of basin
- 75.2 km²3.6% of basin
- 31.0 km²1.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
31 distinct species · 109 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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
720mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
43mm/an
PET
2 022mm
AET
607mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
98cm
Forest
0%
Crops
18%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)