Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080779910

Bassin · #1080779910

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 : Birnin Gwari, Giwa, Sabuwa

Pfafstetter: 14234606

Sub-basin area

245,8km²

Upstream area

245,8km²

Discharge

1,91m³/s

Mean elev.

654m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin · #1080784310199 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Rikau

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    2.70 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

3 distinct species · 3 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

3 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2
2–1
2–1
2–1
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

25,0°C

Annual rain

1 137mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,38

Runoff

247mm/an

PET

1 845mm

AET

853mm

Mean slope

1,3°

Water table

138cm

Forest

0%

Crops

22%

Urban

0%

Protected

1%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)