HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080806130
Bassin de River Kinibi
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, Mariga, Rafi
Sub-basin area
913,5km²
Upstream area
7 339km²
Discharge
53,7m³/s
Mean elev.
386m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Kinibi367 km²
- Bassin de River Kinibi54 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 429.0 km²47.2% of basin
- 375.5 km²41.3% of basin
- 105.3 km²11.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kamuku
IUCN IINational Park
64.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 154mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
248mm/an
PET
1 890mm
AET
861mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
130cm
Forest
0%
Crops
25%
Urban
4%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)