HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080644520
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 : Tillabéry, Téra
Sub-basin area
9,2km²
Upstream area
612 098,6km²
Discharge
799,55m³/s
Mean elev.
215m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger514 km²
- Bassin du Niger179 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 7.8 km²85.3% of basin
- 1.3 km²14.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kandadji
IUCN IVNature Reserve
9.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
29,4°C
Annual rain
300mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,86
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
2 124mm
AET
250mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
39cm
Forest
0%
Crops
50%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)