HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080795630
Bassin de Kobalé
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bagoué, Folon, Kolondiéba
Sub-basin area
471,9km²
Upstream area
4 286,7km²
Discharge
39,1m³/s
Mean elev.
362m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Loubone (Koba)1241 km²
- Bassin de Mahandiabani1023 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 408.4 km²86.9% of basin
- KolondiébaSikasso · Mali61.1 km²13.0% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Saman
IUCN IVClassified Forest
66.51 km² overlap
Pouniokele
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
16.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
71 distinct species · 112 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
1 152mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
229mm/an
PET
1 918mm
AET
921mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
119cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)