Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080725770

Bassin de Koulountou

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 : Gaoual, Koundara

Pfafstetter: 14580407

Sub-basin area

524,9km²

Upstream area

1 648,6km²

Discharge

16,49m³/s

Mean elev.

165m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Koulountou674 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Gambie-Koulountou

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)

    476.96 km² overlap

  • N'Dama

    IUCN Not Reported

    Classified Forest

    14.72 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

8 distinct species · 20 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

20 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 14
14–13
14–13
14–13
< 14

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

27,2°C

Annual rain

1 486mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,24

Runoff

305mm/an

PET

1 954mm

AET

962mm

Mean slope

5,4°

Water table

280cm

Forest

70%

Crops

7%

Urban

0%

Protected

3%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)