HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080812770
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 : Borgu, Ngaski
Sub-basin area
58,1km²
Upstream area
1 569 483km²
Discharge
1 378,08m³/s
Mean elev.
147m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wessa1334 km²
- Bassin · #1080810080188 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 36.9 km²63.6% of basin
- 21.1 km²36.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Doro
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
6.68 km² overlap
Kainji Lake
IUCN IINational Park
6.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 18 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 076mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
213mm/an
PET
1 920mm
AET
862mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
59cm
Forest
1%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)