HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080795840
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 2 administrative regions : Kankan, Mandiana
Sub-basin area
811,2km²
Upstream area
20 537,3km²
Discharge
305,94m³/s
Mean elev.
406m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sankarani1111 km²
- Bassin de Dion287 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 803.4 km²99.4% of basin
- 4.5 km²0.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sankarani-Fié
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
774.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 17 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 448mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
400mm/an
PET
2 088mm
AET
1 057mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
118cm
Forest
33%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)