HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080711210
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, Maradun, Rabah
Sub-basin area
257,1km²
Upstream area
5 449,8km²
Discharge
27,94m³/s
Mean elev.
309m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sokoto280 km²
- Bassin de Sokoto170 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 241.0 km²94.1% of basin
- 8.3 km²3.2% of basin
- 6.8 km²2.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Dankaiwa
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
61.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 4 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
696mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
93mm/an
PET
2 035mm
AET
587mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
98cm
Forest
0%
Crops
16%
Urban
4%
Protected
24%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)