HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080736270
Bassin de Sokoto
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 5 administrative regions : Arewa Dandi, Birnin Kebbi, Bunza, Dandi, Kalgo
Sub-basin area
1 098km²
Upstream area
152 004km²
Discharge
163,92m³/s
Mean elev.
222m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sokoto2739 km²
- Bassin de Sokoto2451 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 538.1 km²49.2% of basin
- 300.9 km²27.5% of basin
- 250.8 km²22.9% of basin
- 3.1 km²0.3% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
115 distinct species · 643 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Sokoto : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,5°C
Annual rain
750mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
95mm/an
PET
2 002mm
AET
633mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
95cm
Forest
0%
Crops
42%
Urban
5%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)