HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080582390
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 1 administrative regions : Gao
Sub-basin area
303,3km²
Upstream area
3 781,3km²
Discharge
4,88m³/s
Mean elev.
289m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080581610250 km²
- Bassin · #1080581410224 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GaoGao · Mali302.3 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 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°
29,7°C
Annual rain
203mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
36mm/an
PET
2 138mm
AET
168mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
292cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)