HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080866540
Bassin de Meli
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Faranah, Guéckédou, Koinadugu, Kono
Sub-basin area
599,8km²
Upstream area
599,8km²
Discharge
23,87m³/s
Mean elev.
586m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 332.0 km²55.6% of basin
- 143.4 km²24.0% of basin
- 91.9 km²15.4% of basin
- 30.1 km²5.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niger Source
IUCN IVClassified Forest
277.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 821 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
2 174mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
1 177mm/an
PET
2 008mm
AET
1 354mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
373cm
Forest
31%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)