HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080890120
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Guéckédou, Kailahun, Kono
Sub-basin area
212,6km²
Upstream area
3 692,4km²
Discharge
165,23m³/s
Mean elev.
339m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de R. ouamandou384 km²
- Bassin de Meli25 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 137.0 km²64.7% of basin
- 39.3 km²18.5% of basin
- 35.5 km²16.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Gori Hills
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
33.46 km² overlap
Mt. Kouya
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
0.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,4°C
Annual rain
2 611mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
1 547mm/an
PET
1 852mm
AET
1 433mm
Mean slope
5,6°
Water table
195cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)