HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080779890
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 2 administrative regions : Birnin Gwari, Maru
Sub-basin area
113,2km²
Upstream area
5 202,5km²
Discharge
37,48m³/s
Mean elev.
441m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Kinibi575 km²
- Bassin de River Kinibi343 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 82.8 km²73.4% of basin
- 30.0 km²26.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kwaimbana
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
69.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 115mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
231mm/an
PET
1 892mm
AET
842mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
101cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
62%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)