HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080783100
Bassin de Malendo
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 6 administrative regions : Danko Wasagu, Kontagora, Mariga, Maru, Rijau +1
Sub-basin area
2 220,4km²
Upstream area
2 220,5km²
Discharge
12,9m³/s
Mean elev.
406m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 819.1 km²37.0% of basin
- 654.3 km²29.6% of basin
- 647.9 km²29.3% of basin
- 81.7 km²3.7% of basin
- 8.5 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wasagu Sakaba
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
179.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 9 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 067mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
199mm/an
PET
1 896mm
AET
820mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
136cm
Forest
0%
Crops
42%
Urban
1%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)