HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080784310
Bassin · #1080784310
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, Igabi
Sub-basin area
199,3km²
Upstream area
1 726,4km²
Discharge
12,99m³/s
Mean elev.
632m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080779900448 km²
- Bassin · #1080779910246 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 95.3 km²48.0% of basin
- 87.3 km²44.0% of basin
- 15.9 km²8.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Rikau
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
44.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 160mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
265mm/an
PET
1 845mm
AET
865mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
139cm
Forest
0%
Crops
38%
Urban
0%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)