HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080730880
Bassin de Nakembé
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 : Ganzourgou, Kadiogo, Oubritenga
Sub-basin area
171,2km²
Upstream area
26 006,1km²
Discharge
16,05m³/s
Mean elev.
278m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nakembé616 km²
- Bassin de Nakembé13 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 127.3 km²74.7% of basin
- 42.7 km²25.0% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nakambé
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
43.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
755mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
66mm/an
PET
2 001mm
AET
637mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
99cm
Forest
0%
Crops
22%
Urban
4%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)