Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080733530

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 2 administrative regions : Anka, Bukkuyum

Pfafstetter: 14242076

Sub-basin area

378km²

Upstream area

378km²

Discharge

2,16m³/s

Mean elev.

384m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Zamfara1163 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • West Anka

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    78.57 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 distinct species · 1 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

1 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

26,8°C

Annual rain

906mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,54

Runoff

180mm/an

PET

1 965mm

AET

760mm

Mean slope

1,0°

Water table

134cm

Forest

0%

Crops

18%

Urban

1%

Protected

21%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)