HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080870400
Bassin de River Gbako
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 : Katcha, Lavun
Sub-basin area
148,6km²
Upstream area
7 384,1km²
Discharge
89,77m³/s
Mean elev.
59m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Gbako938 km²
- Bassin · #1080864110870 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 88.0 km²59.4% of basin
- 60.0 km²40.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lower Kaduna-Middle Niger Floodplain
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
78.80 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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,2°C
Annual rain
1 171mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
428mm/an
PET
1 869mm
AET
939mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
20cm
Forest
31%
Crops
27%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)