HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080700270
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 4 administrative regions : Augie, Binji, Gudu, Silame
Sub-basin area
287,4km²
Upstream area
139 283,1km²
Discharge
173,9m³/s
Mean elev.
247m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sokoto1007 km²
- Bassin de Sokoto965 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 142.3 km²49.7% of basin
- 126.8 km²44.3% of basin
- 10.6 km²3.7% of basin
- 6.6 km²2.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Karfe Binji
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
31.84 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°
28,6°C
Annual rain
628mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
76mm/an
PET
2 069mm
AET
529mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
112cm
Forest
0%
Crops
50%
Urban
3%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)