HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080832560
Bassin · #1080832560
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 : Kachia, Kagarko
Sub-basin area
62,4km²
Upstream area
3 106,9km²
Discharge
33,43m³/s
Mean elev.
592m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Gurara471 km²
- Bassin · #1080834460373 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 45.4 km²73.0% of basin
- 16.8 km²27.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Akwana West
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
1.32 km² overlap
Forest Reserve Name Unknown (NGA) No.53
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
0.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 100 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
1 423mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
357mm/an
PET
1 786mm
AET
960mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
135cm
Forest
8%
Crops
19%
Urban
1%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)