HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080942920
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
1 842km²
Upstream area
35 261,9km²
Discharge
397,07m³/s
Mean elev.
282m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kouen2013 km²
- Bassin de Sassandra527 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1094.9 km²59.7% of basin
- 739.2 km²40.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Mt. Sassandra
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
690.35 km² overlap
Classified Forest Name Unknown (CIV) No.53
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
167.26 km² overlap
Mt. Tia
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
133.08 km² overlap
Parc national du Mont Péko
IUCN IINational Park
68.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
877 distinct species · 1 942 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 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 : 11 espèces reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.5%, 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 426mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
215mm/an
PET
1 730mm
AET
1 122mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
137cm
Forest
51%
Crops
8%
Urban
3%
Protected
72%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)