HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080791810
Bassin de Sankarani
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 1 administrative regions : Mandiana
Sub-basin area
304,4km²
Upstream area
21 389,7km²
Discharge
316,06m³/s
Mean elev.
402m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sankarani811 km²
- Bassin de Sankarani548 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Sankarani-Fié
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
303.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 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 421mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
383mm/an
PET
2 100mm
AET
1 043mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
116cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)