HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080800220
Bassin de Farako
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 across 2 countries : Bougouni, Folon
Sub-basin area
168,6km²
Upstream area
168,6km²
Discharge
1,79m³/s
Mean elev.
391m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 167.6 km²99.8% of basin
- BougouniSikasso · Mali0.3 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Djangoumerila
IUCN IVTotal Wildlife Reserve
0.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
1 289mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
335mm/an
PET
1 974mm
AET
965mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
106cm
Forest
96%
Crops
29%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)