HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080763910
Bassin de Selmon
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 : Comoé, Houet, Kénédougou
Sub-basin area
1 576,9km²
Upstream area
1 576,9km²
Discharge
4,2m³/s
Mean elev.
466m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1086.4 km²69.2% of basin
- 408.1 km²26.0% of basin
- 76.1 km²4.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Barrage de Samandéni
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
19.98 km² overlap
Sources de la Volta Noire
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
1.03 km² overlap
Bérégadougou
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
0.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
585 distinct species · 1 589 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 12 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 de Selmon : 11 espèces + 1 bulle famille, 8 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 052mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
91mm/an
PET
1 911mm
AET
867mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
229cm
Forest
4%
Crops
6%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)