HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080806190
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 2 administrative regions : Dabola, Faranah
Sub-basin area
1 154,5km²
Upstream area
1 154,5km²
Discharge
14,23m³/s
Mean elev.
517m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1147.1 km²99.8% of basin
- 2.8 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tinkisso
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
47.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
103 distinct species · 331 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin du Niger : 11 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 515mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
447mm/an
PET
2 012mm
AET
1 085mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
167cm
Forest
79%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)