HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080751390
Bassin de Sota
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 across 2 countries : Bagudo, Kandi, Malanville, Ségbana
Sub-basin area
1 648,9km²
Upstream area
12 167,7km²
Discharge
51,36m³/s
Mean elev.
254m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Irané1689 km²
- Bassin de Sota804 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 707.4 km²43.1% of basin
- 592.9 km²36.1% of basin
- 323.4 km²19.7% of basin
- 18.6 km²1.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gougoun
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
309.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
478 distinct species · 2 947 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°
27,9°C
Annual rain
978mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
116mm/an
PET
1 966mm
AET
812mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
177cm
Forest
3%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
19%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)