HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080564960
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 3 administrative regions : Diré, Gourma-Rharous, Tombouctou
Sub-basin area
370,1km²
Upstream area
367 614km²
Discharge
567,59m³/s
Mean elev.
265m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Niger216 km²
- Bassin de Niger3 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 194.6 km²52.8% of basin
- 172.8 km²46.8% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Delta Intérieur du Niger
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
298.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 8 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°
28,5°C
Annual rain
221mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
73mm/an
PET
2 154mm
AET
183mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
25cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)