HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080836790
Bassin de Kpondolo
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 : Faranah, Koinadugu
Sub-basin area
599km²
Upstream area
599km²
Discharge
20,21m³/s
Mean elev.
478m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 588.6 km²98.7% of basin
- 7.9 km²1.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niger Source
IUCN IVClassified Forest
23.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 10 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 919mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
1 022mm/an
PET
1 977mm
AET
1 221mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
129cm
Forest
27%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)