HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080832520
Bassin de Balso
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, Forécariah, Kindia
Sub-basin area
856km²
Upstream area
856,2km²
Discharge
41,83m³/s
Mean elev.
293m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 781.1 km²91.6% of basin
- ForécariahKindia · Guinea71.3 km²8.4% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sources de Kindia
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
4.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
381 distinct species · 814 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 15 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Balso : 14 espèces + 1 bulle famille, 12 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 11.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,6°C
Annual rain
2 448mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,30
Runoff
1 559mm/an
PET
1 718mm
AET
1 067mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
268cm
Forest
55%
Crops
13%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)