HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080774720
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 : Shanga, Yauri
Sub-basin area
117,7km²
Upstream area
1 549 272,6km²
Discharge
1 253,81m³/s
Mean elev.
164m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger2328 km²
- Bassin · #10807704201 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 110.8 km²94.5% of basin
- 6.4 km²5.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 6 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
962mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
203mm/an
PET
1 936mm
AET
793mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
127cm
Forest
0%
Crops
29%
Urban
12%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)