HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080870480
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 4 administrative regions : Katcha, Lavun, Lokoja, Pategi
Sub-basin area
960,8km²
Upstream area
1 692 434,5km²
Discharge
2 481,61m³/s
Mean elev.
87m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger1470 km²
- Bassin de Kaduna1148 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 528.9 km²55.3% of basin
- 387.7 km²40.5% of basin
- 20.2 km²2.1% of basin
- 20.0 km²2.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Lower Kaduna-Middle Niger Floodplain
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
587.51 km² overlap
Edoko Hills
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
23.92 km² overlap
Pategi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
5.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
80 distinct species · 214 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 du Niger : 16 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,0°C
Annual rain
1 170mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
431mm/an
PET
1 862mm
AET
942mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
111cm
Forest
15%
Crops
23%
Urban
7%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)