HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080786690
Bassin du Mouhoun / Mouhoun River
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Ioba, Lawra, Nandom, Poni
Sub-basin area
37,8km²
Upstream area
86 226,4km²
Discharge
37,15m³/s
Mean elev.
251m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10807848801324 km²
- Bassin du Mouhoun / Mouhoun River1196 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 20.4 km²54.2% of basin
- 17.2 km²45.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bontioli
IUCN IVClassified Forest and Partial Wildlife Reserve
20.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 51 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°
27,9°C
Annual rain
986mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
84mm/an
PET
1 932mm
AET
831mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
94cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)