HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080782820
Bassin de Bafing
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 : Dabola, Mamou
Sub-basin area
792,3km²
Upstream area
792,3km²
Discharge
10,1m³/s
Mean elev.
741m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 486.1 km²61.6% of basin
- 303.1 km²38.4% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 29 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°
24,0°C
Annual rain
1 573mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
427mm/an
PET
1 826mm
AET
1 030mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
260cm
Forest
65%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)