HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080665560
Bassin · #1080665560
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 : Diffa, N'Guigmi
Sub-basin area
47,8km²
Upstream area
15 460,2km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
278m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080663270720 km²
- Bassin · #1080663280312 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- DiffaDiffa · Niger44.7 km²93.8% of basin
- 3.0 km²6.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lac Tchad
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
47.62 km² overlap
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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
233mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
2 102mm
AET
193mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
16cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)