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
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°
28,2°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)