HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080755810
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, Kénédougou
Sub-basin area
2 047,8km²
Upstream area
4 835,7km²
Discharge
11,06m³/s
Mean elev.
346m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Selmon1577 km²
- Bassin · #10807637801211 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1229.5 km²60.3% of basin
- 810.2 km²39.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Barrage de Samandéni
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
637.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
382 distinct species · 3 156 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin du Mouhoun : 11 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,2°C
Annual rain
990mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
76mm/an
PET
1 995mm
AET
835mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
154cm
Forest
1%
Crops
10%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)