HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080768290
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
52,1km²
Upstream area
4 827,9km²
Discharge
48,47m³/s
Mean elev.
397m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bouka1979 km²
- Bassin de Tinkisso124 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 30.2 km²58.2% of basin
- DinguirayeFaranah · Guinea21.7 km²41.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tinkisso
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
51.94 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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 382mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
307mm/an
PET
2 046mm
AET
1 000mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
81cm
Forest
18%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)