HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080765830
Bassin de Lotio
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 across 2 countries : Kénédougou, Sikasso
Sub-basin area
250,4km²
Upstream area
250,4km²
Discharge
0,83m³/s
Mean elev.
505m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- SikassoSikasso · Mali248.3 km²99.6% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Farako
IUCN IVClassified Forest
0.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
33 distinct species · 46 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 103mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
109mm/an
PET
1 921mm
AET
890mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
166cm
Forest
0%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)