HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080826480
Bassin de Little Scarcies
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 : Bombali, Koinadugu, Mamou
Sub-basin area
785,1km²
Upstream area
3 795,1km²
Discharge
121,45m³/s
Mean elev.
278m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kaba River969 km²
- Bassin de Kaba Fleuve11 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 315.2 km²40.3% of basin
- 246.8 km²31.6% of basin
- 219.9 km²28.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Outamba
IUCN IINational Park
310.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
240 distinct species · 1 710 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,3°C
Annual rain
2 045mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
1 223mm/an
PET
1 811mm
AET
1 127mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
325cm
Forest
31%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
40%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)