HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080700480
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 : Bakura, Dange-Shuni, Rabah
Sub-basin area
930,5km²
Upstream area
7 382,8km²
Discharge
34,25m³/s
Mean elev.
303m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10807113801003 km²
- Bassin de Sokoto257 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 729.6 km²78.7% of basin
- 167.2 km²18.0% of basin
- 30.1 km²3.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Dankaiwa
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
230.99 km² overlap
Sangiwa
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
79.55 km² overlap
Bakura Tureta
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
44.77 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 14 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
675mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
83mm/an
PET
2 047mm
AET
569mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
100cm
Forest
0%
Crops
25%
Urban
3%
Protected
38%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)