HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080760770
Bassin de Tinkisso
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 3 administrative regions : Dinguiraye, Kouroussa, Siguiri
Sub-basin area
1 242,4km²
Upstream area
16 398,5km²
Discharge
137,03m³/s
Mean elev.
398m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tinkisso984 km²
- Bassin de Bouka118 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1109.2 km²89.6% of basin
- 128.2 km²10.4% of basin
- DinguirayeFaranah · Guinea0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tinkisso
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
49.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
69 distinct species · 74 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 328mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
278mm/an
PET
2 108mm
AET
984mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
162cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)