HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080820530
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 : Bosso, Rafi, Shiroro
Sub-basin area
699,8km²
Upstream area
40 753,5km²
Discharge
376,13m³/s
Mean elev.
249m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Wanna626 km²
- Bassin de Kaduna526 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 393.0 km²56.4% of basin
- 258.8 km²37.1% of basin
- 45.2 km²6.5% of basin
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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
1 225mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
319mm/an
PET
1 895mm
AET
910mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
164cm
Forest
0%
Crops
22%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)