HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080550020
Bassin du Niger
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 : Bourem, Gourma-Rharous
Sub-basin area
727,6km²
Upstream area
408 809,8km²
Discharge
532,21m³/s
Mean elev.
273m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger921 km²
- Bassin · #1080550760119 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BouremGao · Mali531.9 km²73.3% of basin
- 193.3 km²26.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 189 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°
29,2°C
Annual rain
159mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
42mm/an
PET
2 166mm
AET
130mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
138cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)