HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080823770
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 across 2 countries : Faranah, Koinadugu
Sub-basin area
945,8km²
Upstream area
946,1km²
Discharge
22,46m³/s
Mean elev.
503m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 935.3 km²99.3% of basin
- 6.6 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niger Source
IUCN IVClassified Forest
487.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 12 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 795mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
781mm/an
PET
2 066mm
AET
1 223mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
113cm
Forest
54%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)