HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080734840
Bassin · #1080734840
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 1 administrative regions : Gaya
Sub-basin area
148,6km²
Upstream area
8 194,2km²
Discharge
17,58m³/s
Mean elev.
210m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080731440743 km²
- Bassin · #1080731120531 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GayaDosso · Niger148.0 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Dosso
IUCN IVPartial Fauna Reserve
85.53 km² overlap
Dallol Maouri
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
80.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 18 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°
28,9°C
Annual rain
681mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
77mm/an
PET
2 000mm
AET
574mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
140cm
Forest
0%
Crops
28%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)