HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080023020
Bassin de Badagry Creek
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 16 administrative regions : Agege, Ajeromi/Ifelodun, Alimosho, Amuwo Odofin, Apapa +11
Sub-basin area
698km²
Upstream area
48 394,1km²
Discharge
883,01m³/s
Mean elev.
8m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ogun2088 km²
- Bassin de Majidun Creek1429 km²
16 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 154.8 km²22.3% of basin
- 145.4 km²20.9% of basin
- 99.1 km²14.3% of basin
- 69.0 km²9.9% of basin
- 37.1 km²5.3% of basin
- 30.6 km²4.4% of basin
- 25.7 km²3.7% of basin
- 24.5 km²3.5% of basin
8 moreFull L2 list
- Oshodi/Isolo24.4 km² · 3.5%
- Mainland22.7 km² · 3.3%
- Shomolu18.2 km² · 2.6%
- Mushin17.3 km² · 2.5%
- Kosofe13.8 km² · 2.0%
- Ajeromi/Ifelodun11.6 km² · 1.7%
- Agege0.8 km² · 0.1%
- Alimosho0.0 km² · 0.0%
1 intersecting protected areas
Lekki
IUCN IaStrict Nature Reserve
2.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 479 distinct species · 15 505 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Badagry Creek : 24 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
1 688mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
813mm/an
PET
1 413mm
AET
1 092mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
34cm
Forest
30%
Crops
15%
Urban
68%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)