HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080746360
Bassin de Bafing
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 1 administrative regions : Dinguiraye
Sub-basin area
1 100,2km²
Upstream area
14 857,7km²
Discharge
180,04m³/s
Mean elev.
485m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bafing225 km²
- Bassin de Bafing102 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- DinguirayeFaranah · Guinea1095.9 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Moyen-Bafing National Park
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
481.86 km² overlap
Sobory
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
46.10 km² overlap
Tinkisso
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
1.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
40 distinct species · 62 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 350mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
289mm/an
PET
1 955mm
AET
944mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
304cm
Forest
55%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)