HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080719000
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 2 administrative regions : Maradun, Talata-Mafara
Sub-basin area
31,8km²
Upstream area
4 448,6km²
Discharge
25,06m³/s
Mean elev.
343m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sokoto3033 km²
- Bassin · #1080720740211 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 29.3 km²92.4% of basin
- 2.4 km²7.6% of basin
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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
764mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
127mm/an
PET
2 010mm
AET
646mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
41cm
Forest
0%
Crops
40%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)