HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080734860
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, Bungudu, Maru
Sub-basin area
428,4km²
Upstream area
3 078km²
Discharge
18,86m³/s
Mean elev.
403m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10807367001646 km²
- Bassin de Zamfara1004 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 221.2 km²51.8% of basin
- 205.3 km²48.1% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Kanoma Gabiya
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
63.11 km² overlap
East Anka
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
37.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
889mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
178mm/an
PET
1 970mm
AET
750mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
128cm
Forest
0%
Crops
22%
Urban
5%
Protected
24%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)