HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080848090
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 : Kaiama, Mokwa
Sub-basin area
287km²
Upstream area
1 600 103,5km²
Discharge
1 585,67m³/s
Mean elev.
146m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger2239 km²
- Bassin du Niger484 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 156.2 km²54.7% of basin
- 129.6 km²45.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
River Moshi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
149.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
1 134mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
219mm/an
PET
1 892mm
AET
930mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
106cm
Forest
27%
Crops
17%
Urban
9%
Protected
52%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)