HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080757600
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
68,3km²
Upstream area
78 793,8km²
Discharge
21,95m³/s
Mean elev.
258m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Mouhoun276 km²
- Bassin du Mouhoun41 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 44.4 km²65.3% of basin
- 23.6 km²34.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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
869mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
49mm/an
PET
1 992mm
AET
734mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
99cm
Forest
7%
Crops
9%
Urban
7%
Protected
54%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)