HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080717290
Bassin du Falémé
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 across 3 countries : Kéniéba, Mali, Saraya
Sub-basin area
167km²
Upstream area
8 353,1km²
Discharge
60,92m³/s
Mean elev.
170m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Falémé2623 km²
- Bassin de Balin-Ko2372 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 123.4 km²74.2% of basin
- KéniébaKayes · Mali40.4 km²24.3% of basin
- 2.6 km²1.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
130 distinct species · 276 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin du Falémé : 22 espèces reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,1°C
Annual rain
1 198mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
189mm/an
PET
1 972mm
AET
857mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
203cm
Forest
10%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)