HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080853850
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 3 administrative regions : Kaiama, Mokwa, Moro
Sub-basin area
546,7km²
Upstream area
6 766,4km²
Discharge
81,99m³/s
Mean elev.
218m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10808609002595 km²
- Bassin · #1080861200989 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 340.2 km²62.5% of basin
- 197.9 km²36.3% of basin
- 6.4 km²1.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
River Moshi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
174.95 km² overlap
Iwa River
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
119.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
99 distinct species · 155 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 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 13 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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 158mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
275mm/an
PET
1 862mm
AET
953mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
188cm
Forest
36%
Crops
25%
Urban
2%
Protected
54%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)