HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080806300
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
25,2km²
Upstream area
5 566,5km²
Discharge
105,36m³/s
Mean elev.
442m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Balé1782 km²
- Bassin du Niger112 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
1 459mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
427mm/an
PET
2 114mm
AET
1 088mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
95cm
Forest
78%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)