HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080802010
Bassin de Gongola
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 : Kwami, Yamaltu/Deba
Sub-basin area
242,4km²
Upstream area
31 308,5km²
Discharge
147,06m³/s
Mean elev.
298m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gongola1601 km²
- Bassin de Gongola269 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Yamaltu/DebaGombe · Nigeria235.1 km²97.4% of basin
- 6.3 km²2.6% of basin
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.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,1°C
Annual rain
861mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
146mm/an
PET
1 967mm
AET
727mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
159cm
Forest
0%
Crops
35%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)