HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080725050
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 3 administrative regions : Mouhoun, Nayala, Sanguié
Sub-basin area
116,4km²
Upstream area
56 424km²
Discharge
44,98m³/s
Mean elev.
266m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Mouhoun622 km²
- Bassin du Mouhoun179 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 64.6 km²55.7% of basin
- 29.3 km²25.3% of basin
- 22.1 km²19.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Ouoro
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
25.42 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
21.49 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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
743mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
2 049mm
AET
627mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
90cm
Forest
0%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)