HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080717730
Bassin · #1080717730
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 : Nayala, Sourou
Sub-basin area
1 374,9km²
Upstream area
1 375,2km²
Discharge
1,32m³/s
Mean elev.
280m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1330.0 km²97.1% of basin
- 39.7 km²2.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Confluent du Sourou-Volta Noire
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
0.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
50 distinct species · 142 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°
28,8°C
Annual rain
693mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
2 024mm
AET
584mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
80cm
Forest
0%
Crops
14%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)