Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080587780

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

6% lakePfafstetter: 14275077

Sub-basin area

86,1km²

Upstream area

521 933,1km²

Discharge

837,55m³/s

Mean elev.

270m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin du Niger424 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Gao
    Gao · Mali
    85.9 km²
    100.0% of basin

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 distinct species · 2 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

2 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

29,5°C

Annual rain

233mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,89

Runoff

88mm/an

PET

2 120mm

AET

194mm

Mean slope

0,7°

Water table

198cm

Forest

0%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)