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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
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)