HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080741030
Bassin du Mouhoun
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 4 administrative regions : Banwa, Houet, Mouhoun, Tuy
Sub-basin area
753,9km²
Upstream area
11 579,4km²
Discharge
20,37m³/s
Mean elev.
305m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Mouhoun917 km²
- Bassin · #1080747450120 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 666.7 km²88.8% of basin
- 81.7 km²10.9% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
La Mare aux hippopotames
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
27.02 km² overlap
Mare aux Hippopotames
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
22.81 km² overlap
Maro
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
1.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
131 distinct species · 2 137 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°
27,7°C
Annual rain
895mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
57mm/an
PET
2 015mm
AET
755mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
122cm
Forest
0%
Crops
8%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)