HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080564740
Bassin de 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 : Diré, Tombouctou
Sub-basin area
178,7km²
Upstream area
11 201,6km²
Discharge
51,04m³/s
Mean elev.
267m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Niger544 km²
- Bassin de Niger420 km²
- Bassin · #108007655075 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 168.8 km²94.8% of basin
- 9.3 km²5.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Delta Intérieur du Niger
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
54.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 15 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°
28,3°C
Annual rain
184mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,91
Runoff
37mm/an
PET
2 160mm
AET
151mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
18cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)