HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080720740
Bassin · #1080720740
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 5 administrative regions : Bungudu, Kaura Namoda, Maradun, Maru, Talata-Mafara
Sub-basin area
211,2km²
Upstream area
211,2km²
Discharge
0,81m³/s
Mean elev.
419m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 202.7 km²96.3% of basin
- 6.7 km²3.2% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Illela
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
107.39 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
765mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
121mm/an
PET
1 991mm
AET
646mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
192cm
Forest
0%
Crops
37%
Urban
24%
Protected
51%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)