HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080700060
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 2 administrative regions : Dange-Shuni, Rabah
Sub-basin area
347,7km²
Upstream area
347,7km²
Discharge
0,91m³/s
Mean elev.
301m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 208.7 km²60.3% of basin
- 137.7 km²39.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sangiwa
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
134.76 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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
667mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
82mm/an
PET
2 060mm
AET
562mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
112cm
Forest
0%
Crops
43%
Urban
1%
Protected
39%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)