HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080740400
Bassin de Pako
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 : Banikoara, Karimama, Malanville
Sub-basin area
1 592,6km²
Upstream area
1 592,6km²
Discharge
4,71m³/s
Mean elev.
258m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1119.2 km²70.5% of basin
- 464.7 km²29.3% of basin
- 2.5 km²0.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
1120.05 km² overlap
W (Benin)
IUCN IINational Park
1115.30 km² overlap
W Parks Regional Complex
IUCN IIRegional Park
1115.30 km² overlap
Site Ramsar du Complexe W
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
1074.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
686 distinct species · 10 756 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Pako : 17 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
842mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
86mm/an
PET
1 998mm
AET
711mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
150cm
Forest
3%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
70%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)