HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080834850
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 3 administrative regions : Faranah, Kissidougou, Kouroussa
Sub-basin area
436,2km²
Upstream area
436,2km²
Discharge
9,86m³/s
Mean elev.
548m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KissidougouFaranah · Guinea216.3 km²49.8% of basin
- 201.2 km²46.3% of basin
- 16.9 km²3.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niger Source
IUCN IVClassified Forest
337.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
32 distinct species · 37 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
1 913mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
757mm/an
PET
2 116mm
AET
1 304mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
119cm
Forest
60%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)