HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080684210
Bassin · #1080684210
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 across 2 countries : Lake Chad, Mamdi
Sub-basin area
448,3km²
Upstream area
12 401,7km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
280m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10806798201306 km²
- Bassin · #1080679950465 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 444.5 km²99.5% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lake Chad Wetlands in Nigeria
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
444.46 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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,2°C
Annual rain
283mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,86
Runoff
14mm/an
PET
2 089mm
AET
236mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
9cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)