HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080705760
Bassin · #1080705760
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 across 2 countries : Arewa Dandi, Dogon-Doutchi
Sub-basin area
1 001,9km²
Upstream area
58 593,3km²
Discharge
24,18m³/s
Mean elev.
234m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080691970606 km²
- Bassin · #108069198020 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Dogon-DoutchiDosso · Niger903.5 km²90.5% of basin
- 94.6 km²9.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lema
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
86.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
45 distinct species · 94 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°
28,8°C
Annual rain
543mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
48mm/an
PET
2 049mm
AET
457mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
200cm
Forest
0%
Crops
82%
Urban
4%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)