HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080821580
Bassin · #1080821580
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 : Baruten, Kaiama
Sub-basin area
430,6km²
Upstream area
2 781,8km²
Discharge
24,02m³/s
Mean elev.
284m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080827210817 km²
- Bassin · #1080827410641 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 352.3 km²82.2% of basin
- 76.5 km²17.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Borgu
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
324.77 km² overlap
Kainji Lake
IUCN IINational Park
307.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 11 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
1 130mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
238mm/an
PET
1 907mm
AET
905mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
107cm
Forest
88%
Crops
28%
Urban
0%
Protected
79%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)