HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080857680
Bassin de Kogin Karim
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 : Ardo-Kola, Karim Lamido
Sub-basin area
2 116,5km²
Upstream area
178 656,5km²
Discharge
841,87m³/s
Mean elev.
219m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Lamurde1401 km²
- Bassin de Benue River635 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1982.2 km²94.0% of basin
- 125.6 km²6.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
151 distinct species · 708 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 de Kogin Karim : 17 espèces reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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
992mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
157mm/an
PET
1 945mm
AET
829mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
175cm
Forest
7%
Crops
33%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)