HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080736450
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 4 administrative regions : Anka, Bungudu, Gusau, Maru
Sub-basin area
1 003,7km²
Upstream area
1 003,7km²
Discharge
5,85m³/s
Mean elev.
459m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 458.5 km²45.9% of basin
- 376.1 km²37.6% of basin
- 156.9 km²15.7% of basin
- 8.3 km²0.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Marbe
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
11.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 6 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
924mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
182mm/an
PET
1 950mm
AET
772mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
117cm
Forest
0%
Crops
22%
Urban
4%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)