HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080732100
Bassin de Zamfara
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 : Bukkuyum, Gummi, Tureta
Sub-basin area
678,2km²
Upstream area
7 094,4km²
Discharge
36,95m³/s
Mean elev.
277m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zamfara1163 km²
- Bassin de Zamfara468 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 664.9 km²98.4% of basin
- 8.9 km²1.3% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
851mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
147mm/an
PET
2 001mm
AET
719mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
89cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)