Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080800060

Bassin de Koriga

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, Chikun, Shiroro

Pfafstetter: 14234409

Sub-basin area

1 133,7km²

Upstream area

1 133,7km²

Discharge

11,37m³/s

Mean elev.

563m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Koriga39 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Birnin Gwari

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    66.87 km² overlap

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

Species present

4 distinct species · 13 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

13 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 6
6–5
5–5
5–4
< 5

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°

25,5°C

Annual rain

1 183mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,36

Runoff

302mm/an

PET

1 854mm

AET

873mm

Mean slope

2,2°

Water table

184cm

Forest

3%

Crops

40%

Urban

1%

Protected

6%

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