HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080762720
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 2 administrative regions : Dinguiraye, Kouroussa
Sub-basin area
368,1km²
Upstream area
7 593,7km²
Discharge
72,41m³/s
Mean elev.
401m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Koubi522 km²
- Bassin de Tinkisso389 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- DinguirayeFaranah · Guinea344.9 km²94.1% of basin
- 21.8 km²5.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tinkisso
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
366.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 354mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
291mm/an
PET
2 041mm
AET
977mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
127cm
Forest
3%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)