HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080747800
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 : Houet, Tuy
Sub-basin area
917,3km²
Upstream area
7 572,4km²
Discharge
16,51m³/s
Mean elev.
327m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Mouhoun2048 km²
- Bassin de Kou1820 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 878.5 km²96.2% of basin
- 35.2 km²3.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
La Mare aux hippopotames
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
164.79 km² overlap
Mare aux Hippopotames
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
149.01 km² overlap
Maro
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
80.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
378 distinct species · 1 940 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,5°C
Annual rain
939mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
63mm/an
PET
2 008mm
AET
793mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
147cm
Forest
1%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)