HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080722680
Bassin du Bafing
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 1 administrative regions : Kéniéba
Sub-basin area
413,3km²
Upstream area
413,7km²
Discharge
1,88m³/s
Mean elev.
356m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KéniébaKayes · Mali411.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Flawa
IUCN VIHunting Area
12.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
1 206mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
143mm/an
PET
1 965mm
AET
875mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
290cm
Forest
35%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)