Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080836190

Bassin · #1080836190

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 1 administrative regions : Mashegu

Pfafstetter: 14235086

Sub-basin area

753,8km²

Upstream area

753,8km²

Discharge

5,33m³/s

Mean elev.

214m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin · #1080840760363 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Zugurma

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    383.32 km² overlap

  • Kainji Lake

    IUCN II

    National Park

    342.22 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

7 distinct species · 14 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

14 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 14
14–13
14–13
14–13
< 14

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

27,2°C

Annual rain

1 150mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,39

Runoff

223mm/an

PET

1 890mm

AET

897mm

Mean slope

0,9°

Water table

105cm

Forest

89%

Crops

35%

Urban

0%

Protected

52%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)