HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080858230
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 3 administrative regions : Bombali, Kambia, Port Loko
Sub-basin area
1 121,5km²
Upstream area
12 965,2km²
Discharge
498,94m³/s
Mean elev.
65m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mawoloko1004 km²
- Bassin de Little Scarcies688 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 743.5 km²66.6% of basin
- 257.4 km²23.0% of basin
- 116.0 km²10.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kilimi
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
21.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 46 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 2 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 : 2 espèces + 0 bulles famille, 1 interaction GloBI documentées sur 1 type (connectance 100.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
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 700mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,34
Runoff
1 918mm/an
PET
1 776mm
AET
1 181mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
62cm
Forest
40%
Crops
20%
Urban
3%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)