HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080593470
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
6,4km²
Upstream area
523 935,8km²
Discharge
820,92m³/s
Mean elev.
258m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger1072 km²
- Bassin du Niger424 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GaoGao · Mali6.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
29,1°C
Annual rain
248mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
150mm/an
PET
2 089mm
AET
206mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
99cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)