HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080802860
Bassin de Mafou
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 : Faranah, Kouroussa
Sub-basin area
1 231,1km²
Upstream area
3 244,3km²
Discharge
52,3m³/s
Mean elev.
448m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mafou292 km²
- Bassin de Mafou154 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 706.7 km²57.6% of basin
- 519.4 km²42.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Previously called Mafou Classified Forest
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
82.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 21 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
1 545mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
433mm/an
PET
2 168mm
AET
1 138mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
106cm
Forest
29%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
57%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)