HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080917250
Bassin de Sassandra
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 5 administrative regions : Bafing, Guémon, Haut-Sassandra, Tonkpi, Worodougou
Sub-basin area
523,4km²
Upstream area
30 207,9km²
Discharge
365,05m³/s
Mean elev.
286m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bafing1115 km²
- Bassin de Tienba324 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 203.6 km²39.1% of basin
- 143.7 km²27.6% of basin
- 88.2 km²16.9% of basin
- 85.5 km²16.4% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Semien Flansobly
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
52.01 km² overlap
Seguela
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
23.58 km² overlap
Parc national du Mont Sangbé
IUCN IINational Park
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
91 distinct species · 161 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 7 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 Sassandra : 4 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 26.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,5°C
Annual rain
1 362mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
263mm/an
PET
1 763mm
AET
1 084mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
170cm
Forest
59%
Crops
28%
Urban
0%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)