HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080833560
Bassin de El Binder
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 : Lac Léré, Mayo Louti
Sub-basin area
202,9km²
Upstream area
2 821,8km²
Discharge
10,82m³/s
Mean elev.
300m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de El Sokoy1034 km²
- Bassin de El Binder602 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 199.5 km²98.7% of basin
- 2.6 km²1.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Binder-Léré
IUCN IVFaunal Reserve
0.38 km² overlap
Réserve de faune de Binder-Léré
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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
844mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
143mm/an
PET
1 974mm
AET
713mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
185cm
Forest
0%
Crops
31%
Urban
12%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)