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