HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080755820
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 3 administrative regions : Bagudo, Dandi, Suru
Sub-basin area
302,5km²
Upstream area
1 355 608,8km²
Discharge
912,27m³/s
Mean elev.
189m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger988 km²
- Bassin du Niger279 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 160.1 km²53.1% of basin
- 95.9 km²31.8% of basin
- 45.4 km²15.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 4 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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
928mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
142mm/an
PET
1 971mm
AET
781mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
80cm
Forest
0%
Crops
33%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)