HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080799500
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 1 administrative regions : Faranah
Sub-basin area
918,5km²
Upstream area
918,5km²
Discharge
11,55m³/s
Mean elev.
456m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
62 distinct species · 562 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
1 475mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
414mm/an
PET
2 162mm
AET
1 103mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
103cm
Forest
20%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)