HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080743060
Bassin de Kano
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 10 administrative regions : Bebeji, Bunkure, Dawakin Kudu, Garum Mallam, Kibiya +5
Sub-basin area
1 314,7km²
Upstream area
7 768,2km²
Discharge
40,48m³/s
Mean elev.
516m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Kano2692 km²
- Bassin de Garkuwa1356 km²
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 560.2 km²42.8% of basin
- Garum MallamKano · Nigeria222.0 km²17.0% of basin
- 210.8 km²16.1% of basin
- 145.2 km²11.1% of basin
- 81.8 km²6.2% of basin
- 72.2 km²5.5% of basin
- 13.9 km²1.1% of basin
- 2.4 km²0.2% of basin
2 moreFull L2 list
- Dawakin Kudu0.9 km² · 0.1%
- Tudun Wada0.2 km² · 0.0%
2 intersecting protected areas
Rurum
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
30.86 km² overlap
Maje (East)
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
17.83 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
193 distinct species · 1 288 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 Kano : 42 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 45 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 3.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
881mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
148mm/an
PET
1 931mm
AET
741mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
108cm
Forest
0%
Crops
75%
Urban
27%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)