HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080733400
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, Maru, Talata-Mafara
Sub-basin area
771,6km²
Upstream area
4 407km²
Discharge
26,33m³/s
Mean elev.
370m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zamfara557 km²
- Bassin de Zamfara428 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 367.4 km²47.8% of basin
- 332.0 km²43.2% of basin
- 69.3 km²9.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kanoma Gabiya
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
12.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 17 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
851mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
163mm/an
PET
1 986mm
AET
719mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
105cm
Forest
0%
Crops
6%
Urban
4%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)