HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080694140
Bassin de Sokoto
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 3 administrative regions : Dange-Shuni, Kware, Rabah
Sub-basin area
313,7km²
Upstream area
10 786,4km²
Discharge
41,22m³/s
Mean elev.
280m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sokoto348 km²
- Bassin de Sokoto254 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 291.5 km²93.3% of basin
- 14.3 km²4.6% of basin
- 6.8 km²2.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Farfar
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
29.23 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 30 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 2 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Sokoto : 2 espèces reliées par 1 interaction GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 100.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,2°C
Annual rain
620mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
71mm/an
PET
2 073mm
AET
522mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
65cm
Forest
0%
Crops
51%
Urban
4%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)