HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080708430
Bassin · #1080708430
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 : Babura, Gumel, Maigatari, Sule Tankarkar
Sub-basin area
637km²
Upstream area
637km²
Discharge
0,37m³/s
Mean elev.
373m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 326.6 km²51.5% of basin
- 294.6 km²46.4% of basin
- 13.3 km²2.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mafuta
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
0.23 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 42 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
439mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
2 133mm
AET
369mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
5cm
Forest
0%
Crops
100%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)