HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080846260
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 2 administrative regions : Bombali, Kambia
Sub-basin area
687,9km²
Upstream area
10 839km²
Discharge
379,61m³/s
Mean elev.
85m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mongo1155 km²
- Bassin de Little Scarcies383 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 601.6 km²87.8% of basin
- 83.4 km²12.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Sigiri
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
21.93 km² overlap
Kuru Hills
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
14.30 km² overlap
Matete
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
10.22 km² overlap
Outamba
IUCN IINational Park
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
152 distinct species · 300 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Little Scarcies : 23 espèces + 1 bulle famille, 15 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 5.4%, 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
2 483mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
1 682mm/an
PET
1 813mm
AET
1 175mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
87cm
Forest
49%
Crops
22%
Urban
4%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)