HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080729710
Bassin du Balé
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 across 2 countries : Dinguiraye, Kita, Siguiri
Sub-basin area
2 469,7km²
Upstream area
2 470km²
Discharge
12,6m³/s
Mean elev.
467m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1442.1 km²58.6% of basin
- KitaKayes · Mali703.2 km²28.6% of basin
- DinguirayeFaranah · Guinea314.8 km²12.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nama Woula
IUCN IITotal Wildlife Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
29 distinct species · 134 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 253mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
163mm/an
PET
2 021mm
AET
921mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
335cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)