HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080858750
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 1 administrative regions : Mokwa
Sub-basin area
67km²
Upstream area
1 615 592,4km²
Discharge
1 740,73m³/s
Mean elev.
71m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080856480684 km²
- Bassin du Niger13 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Lower Kaduna-Middle Niger Floodplain
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
59.64 km² overlap
Kusoziko
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
6.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,1°C
Annual rain
1 144mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
343mm/an
PET
1 890mm
AET
937mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
12cm
Forest
26%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)