HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080746500
Bassin de Kifala
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
205,1km²
Upstream area
205,2km²
Discharge
1,74m³/s
Mean elev.
466m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- DinguirayeFaranah · Guinea204.3 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tinkisso
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
12.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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 336mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
267mm/an
PET
1 979mm
AET
944mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
217cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)