Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080783240

Bassin de Wounoun

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 : Kankan, Kouroussa

Pfafstetter: 14298306

Sub-basin area

459,1km²

Upstream area

459,5km²

Discharge

5,32m³/s

Mean elev.

400m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin du Niger321 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Niger-Niandan-Milo

    IUCN IV

    Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)

    457.22 km² overlap

  • Lefarani

    IUCN Not Reported

    Classified Forest

    1.08 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

29 distinct species · 59 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

59 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 30
30–29
15–29
12–14
< 12

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

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

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

25,8°C

Annual rain

1 488mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,29

Runoff

366mm/an

PET

2 100mm

AET

1 063mm

Mean slope

1,7°

Water table

93cm

Forest

0%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)