HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080732480
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 : Anka, Bukkuyum, Gummi
Sub-basin area
1 162,9km²
Upstream area
5 947,7km²
Discharge
33,98m³/s
Mean elev.
329m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zamfara772 km²
- Bassin de Zamfara378 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 864.8 km²74.7% of basin
- 195.3 km²16.9% of basin
- 98.4 km²8.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 16 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
856mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
155mm/an
PET
1 991mm
AET
722mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
98cm
Forest
0%
Crops
10%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)