HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080815150
Bassin de Kaduna
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 : Chikun, Muya, Shiroro
Sub-basin area
730,1km²
Upstream area
27 650km²
Discharge
238,44m³/s
Mean elev.
485m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kaduna622 km²
- Bassin de Kaduna227 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 376.0 km²51.7% of basin
- 347.8 km²47.8% of basin
- 3.4 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Katerma
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
53.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 240mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
322mm/an
PET
1 853mm
AET
903mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
159cm
Forest
2%
Crops
34%
Urban
9%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)