HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080856120
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 : Edu, Mokwa
Sub-basin area
12,9km²
Upstream area
1 614 841,5km²
Discharge
1 732,78m³/s
Mean elev.
71m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger844 km²
- Bassin du Niger227 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 12.7 km²98.4% of basin
- 0.2 km²1.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lower Kaduna-Middle Niger Floodplain
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
4.19 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°
28,1°C
Annual rain
1 141mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
321mm/an
PET
1 894mm
AET
935mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
12cm
Forest
3%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)