HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080593030
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 : Niafunké, Youwarou
Sub-basin area
100,8km²
Upstream area
337 497,7km²
Discharge
355,91m³/s
Mean elev.
265m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger447 km²
- Bassin du Niger288 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 77.8 km²77.4% of basin
- 22.7 km²22.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Delta Intérieur du Niger
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
100.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 36 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
300mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,86
Runoff
127mm/an
PET
2 085mm
AET
250mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
17cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)