HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080734620
Bassin de Gambia
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 : Koubia, Mali
Sub-basin area
654,7km²
Upstream area
4 293,3km²
Discharge
54,62m³/s
Mean elev.
440m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gambie1914 km²
- Bassin de Gambie1724 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 567.6 km²87.0% of basin
- 84.5 km²13.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
1 372mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
364mm/an
PET
1 871mm
AET
917mm
Mean slope
7,1°
Water table
396cm
Forest
73%
Crops
7%
Urban
1%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)