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