HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080849780
Bassin de Kaduna
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 3 administrative regions : Gbako, Lavun, Mokwa
Sub-basin area
100,5km²
Upstream area
63 836km²
Discharge
618,36m³/s
Mean elev.
108m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kaduna156 km²
- Bassin de Kaduna11 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 60.1 km²60.0% of basin
- 20.0 km²20.0% of basin
- 20.0 km²20.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 13 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°
28,1°C
Annual rain
1 179mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
401mm/an
PET
1 897mm
AET
921mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
161cm
Forest
18%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)