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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
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)