HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080757780
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 5 administrative regions : Balé, Sanguié, Sissili, Tuy, Ziro
Sub-basin area
780km²
Upstream area
780km²
Discharge
1,28m³/s
Mean elev.
292m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 518.9 km²66.8% of basin
- 244.6 km²31.5% of basin
- 13.0 km²1.7% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Dibon
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
0.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 37 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
846mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
54mm/an
PET
1 991mm
AET
714mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
166cm
Forest
0%
Crops
12%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)