HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080777810
Bassin de Mélé
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 : Barh Köh, Guéra
Sub-basin area
1 848,3km²
Upstream area
1 848,4km²
Discharge
6,82m³/s
Mean elev.
366m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1840.3 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Siniaka-Minia
IUCN IVNational Park
527.83 km² overlap
Melfi (Roukoum)
IUCN Not ReportedHunting Area
5.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 22 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°
28,4°C
Annual rain
860mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
116mm/an
PET
2 111mm
AET
726mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
28cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)