HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080824330
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 : Magama, Mashegu
Sub-basin area
44,3km²
Upstream area
4 649,8km²
Discharge
30,8m³/s
Mean elev.
148m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10808214302263 km²
- Bassin de Raka1248 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 28.1 km²63.7% of basin
- 16.0 km²36.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kainji Lake
IUCN IINational Park
2.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 12 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 104mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
193mm/an
PET
1 912mm
AET
885mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
78cm
Forest
0%
Crops
11%
Urban
10%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)