HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080853630
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
334km²
Upstream area
1 603 980,5km²
Discharge
1 610,99m³/s
Mean elev.
159m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger287 km²
- Bassin du Niger137 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 181.2 km²54.5% of basin
- 151.5 km²45.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
River Moshi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
191.54 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 9 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
1 142mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
240mm/an
PET
1 884mm
AET
937mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
153cm
Forest
15%
Crops
22%
Urban
11%
Protected
58%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)