HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080754970
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, Tuy
Sub-basin area
41,4km²
Upstream area
6 493,5km²
Discharge
9,22m³/s
Mean elev.
256m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Petit Balé1287 km²
- Bassin · #1080754640519 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 25.8 km²62.6% of basin
- 15.4 km²37.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
868mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
48mm/an
PET
1 999mm
AET
733mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
83cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)