HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080732070
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 3 administrative regions : Gaoual, Koundara, Mali
Sub-basin area
439,3km²
Upstream area
439,4km²
Discharge
4,96m³/s
Mean elev.
265m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 245.8 km²56.2% of basin
- 191.3 km²43.7% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gambie-Koulountou
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
364.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 572mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
357mm/an
PET
1 922mm
AET
983mm
Mean slope
7,0°
Water table
356cm
Forest
73%
Crops
7%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)