HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080774550
Bassin de River Kinibi
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 5 administrative regions : Birnin Gwari, Faskari, Gusau, Maru, Sabuwa
Sub-basin area
2 527,8km²
Upstream area
2 527,8km²
Discharge
19,27m³/s
Mean elev.
583m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1497.6 km²59.5% of basin
- 420.3 km²16.7% of basin
- 308.2 km²12.2% of basin
- 187.7 km²7.5% of basin
- 104.0 km²4.1% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Kwaimbana
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
590.41 km² overlap
Kuyambana
IUCN Not ReportedGame Reserve
563.43 km² overlap
Dogan Dawa
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
405.21 km² overlap
Kogo
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
294.44 km² overlap
Birnin Gwari
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
244.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 29 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 098mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
241mm/an
PET
1 872mm
AET
835mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
138cm
Forest
0%
Crops
33%
Urban
8%
Protected
61%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)