HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080742220
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Gaya, Malanville
Sub-basin area
287,9km²
Upstream area
1 266 567,5km²
Discharge
951,41m³/s
Mean elev.
194m
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°
28,9°C
Annual rain
813mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
88mm/an
PET
1 995mm
AET
686mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
152cm
Forest
0%
Crops
19%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)