HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080582950
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 : Diré, Niafunké
Sub-basin area
218,1km²
Upstream area
340 878,3km²
Discharge
447,63m³/s
Mean elev.
266m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080584120463 km²
- Bassin du Niger97 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 137.4 km²63.2% of basin
- 80.0 km²36.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Delta Intérieur du Niger
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
217.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,2°C
Annual rain
241mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
85mm/an
PET
2 124mm
AET
200mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
43cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)