HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080742510
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 2 administrative regions : Balé, Sanguié
Sub-basin area
125,8km²
Upstream area
69 408,8km²
Discharge
25,36m³/s
Mean elev.
266m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Marigot de Koudougou2403 km²
- Bassin du Mouhoun1566 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 75.6 km²60.3% of basin
- 49.7 km²39.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
28,1°C
Annual rain
831mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
41mm/an
PET
2 026mm
AET
701mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
135cm
Forest
0%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
70%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)