HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080773820
Bassin du Niger
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 : Kankan, Kouroussa, Siguiri
Sub-basin area
335,7km²
Upstream area
33 291,2km²
Discharge
432,53m³/s
Mean elev.
382m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger766 km²
- Bassin du Niger321 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 284.3 km²85.0% of basin
- 46.3 km²13.9% of basin
- 3.8 km²1.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niger-Niandan-Milo
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
317.80 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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,1°C
Annual rain
1 411mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
324mm/an
PET
2 112mm
AET
1 028mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
92cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)