HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080718700
Bassin du Mouhoun
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 : Mouhoun, Nayala
Sub-basin area
30,3km²
Upstream area
52 697,4km²
Discharge
54,03m³/s
Mean elev.
271m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Mouhoun575 km²
- Bassin de Koyare377 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 28.0 km²92.6% of basin
- 2.2 km²7.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
21.25 km² overlap
Toroba
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
21.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
32 distinct species · 33 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°
28,7°C
Annual rain
762mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
39mm/an
PET
2 025mm
AET
643mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
99cm
Forest
0%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
68%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)