HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080863330
Bassin de Usuma
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 5 administrative regions : Abaji, Gurara, Gwagwalada, Kwali, Lapai
Sub-basin area
1 031,7km²
Upstream area
7 249,5km²
Discharge
81,61m³/s
Mean elev.
230m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10808487301537 km²
- Bassin · #1080848920840 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 577.0 km²56.2% of basin
- 230.7 km²22.5% of basin
- 184.1 km²17.9% of basin
- 34.1 km²3.3% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Tufa
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
14.48 km² overlap
Bonu
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
10.64 km² overlap
Maje Abuchi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
138 distinct species · 784 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Usuma : 16 espèces reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.6%, 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
1 263mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
374mm/an
PET
1 845mm
AET
951mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
146cm
Forest
6%
Crops
13%
Urban
2%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)