HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080723700
Bassin de Gagere
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 7 administrative regions : Birnin-Magaji/Kiyaw, Bungudu, Danmusa, Gusau, Kankara +2
Sub-basin area
751km²
Upstream area
4 643,5km²
Discharge
23,6m³/s
Mean elev.
461m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Manya374 km²
- Bassin de Gagere279 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 527.9 km²70.6% of basin
- 164.8 km²22.0% of basin
- 28.4 km²3.8% of basin
- 21.7 km²2.9% of basin
- 3.7 km²0.5% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
824mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
131mm/an
PET
1 962mm
AET
696mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
163cm
Forest
0%
Crops
41%
Urban
9%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)