HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080845560
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 5 administrative regions : Borgu, Kaiama, Magama, Mashegu, Mokwa
Sub-basin area
2 238,7km²
Upstream area
1 589 735,8km²
Discharge
1 516,21m³/s
Mean elev.
204m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oli901 km²
- Bassin de Oli14 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 812.7 km²36.5% of basin
- 641.0 km²28.7% of basin
- 528.4 km²23.7% of basin
- 247.4 km²11.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Kainji Lake
IUCN IINational Park
173.57 km² overlap
Zugurma
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
36.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
100 distinct species · 350 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 du Niger : 14 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
1 126mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
192mm/an
PET
1 893mm
AET
910mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
138cm
Forest
18%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)