HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080924790
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 2 administrative regions : Guémon, Haut-Sassandra
Sub-basin area
526,7km²
Upstream area
31 407,5km²
Discharge
370,82m³/s
Mean elev.
268m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tenou673 km²
- Bassin de Sassandra523 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 395.2 km²75.4% of basin
- 129.2 km²24.6% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Seguela
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
133.18 km² overlap
Mt. Sassandra
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
69.41 km² overlap
Klouamian
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
23.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 31 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
1 348mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
207mm/an
PET
1 748mm
AET
1 086mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
108cm
Forest
18%
Crops
18%
Urban
3%
Protected
43%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)