HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080863610
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 2 administrative regions : Gwagwalada, Kwali
Sub-basin area
119,2km²
Upstream area
2 959,7km²
Discharge
40,61m³/s
Mean elev.
158m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Iku646 km²
- Bassin de Usuma109 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 85.2 km²71.8% of basin
- 33.5 km²28.2% of basin
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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
1 247mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
382mm/an
PET
1 846mm
AET
955mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
76cm
Forest
1%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)