HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080828950
Bassin de River Lafon
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 5 administrative regions : Barkin Ladi, Jos East, Jos North, Jos South, Mangu
Sub-basin area
223,9km²
Upstream area
224km²
Discharge
3,3m³/s
Mean elev.
1 217m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 173.7 km²77.9% of basin
- 26.4 km²11.8% of basin
- 14.1 km²6.3% of basin
- 7.6 km²3.4% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
438 distinct species · 61 581 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de River Lafon : 14 espèces reliées par 13 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,6°C
Annual rain
1 306mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
452mm/an
PET
1 677mm
AET
895mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
186cm
Forest
0%
Crops
75%
Urban
7%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)