Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080700070

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 1 administrative regions : Rabah

Pfafstetter: 14244050

Sub-basin area

253,9km²

Upstream area

10 125,2km²

Discharge

39,61m³/s

Mean elev.

284m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Sokoto314 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Farfar

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    24.70 km² overlap

  • Gundumi

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    11.25 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 distinct species · 4 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

4 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2
2–1
2–1
1–1
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

28,1°C

Annual rain

619mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,70

Runoff

69mm/an

PET

2 066mm

AET

521mm

Mean slope

0,2°

Water table

69cm

Forest

0%

Crops

40%

Urban

1%

Protected

14%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)