HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080712790
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, Talata-Mafara
Sub-basin area
280,2km²
Upstream area
280,6km²
Discharge
0,85m³/s
Mean elev.
342m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 229.4 km²82.2% of basin
- 49.6 km²17.8% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Dankaiwa
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
15.38 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
701mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
96mm/an
PET
2 023mm
AET
591mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
97cm
Forest
0%
Crops
33%
Urban
2%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)