HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080735220
Bassin du Niger
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 across 2 countries : Dosso, Gaya, Karimama
Sub-basin area
254,6km²
Upstream area
1 251 590,1km²
Discharge
1 216,2m³/s
Mean elev.
189m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
29,0°C
Annual rain
681mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
96mm/an
PET
2 018mm
AET
574mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
156cm
Forest
0%
Crops
13%
Urban
2%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)