HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080736250
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 : Bazèga, Ganzourgou, Kadiogo
Sub-basin area
349,8km²
Upstream area
26 933,2km²
Discharge
18,82m³/s
Mean elev.
274m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nakembé577 km²
- Bassin de Nakembé171 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 187.5 km²53.8% of basin
- 159.2 km²45.7% of basin
- 1.8 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nakambé
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
191.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 10 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
770mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
73mm/an
PET
1 996mm
AET
650mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
99cm
Forest
0%
Crops
26%
Urban
12%
Protected
50%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)