HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080806080
Bassin du Mouhoun / Mouhoun River
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 : Nadowli-Kaleo, Noumbiel, Poni
Sub-basin area
589,6km²
Upstream area
103 964,7km²
Discharge
79,08m³/s
Mean elev.
286m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bekpong405 km²
- Bassin du Mouhoun / Mouhoun River191 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 480.1 km²81.8% of basin
- 99.7 km²17.0% of basin
- 7.4 km²1.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
984mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
170mm/an
PET
1 901mm
AET
832mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
177cm
Forest
1%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)