HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080795620
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
548,3km²
Upstream area
548,3km²
Discharge
6,63m³/s
Mean elev.
419m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 intersecting protected areas
Sankarani-Fié
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
546.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 11 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 390mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
382mm/an
PET
2 065mm
AET
1 023mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
124cm
Forest
8%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)