HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080722540
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 : Banwa, Mouhoun
Sub-basin area
33,8km²
Upstream area
14 548,5km²
Discharge
16,76m³/s
Mean elev.
269m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Mouhoun916 km²
- Bassin · #1080723390711 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 22.7 km²67.6% of basin
- 10.9 km²32.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 3 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°
28,6°C
Annual rain
814mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
59mm/an
PET
2 018mm
AET
687mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
44cm
Forest
0%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)