HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080870790
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 3 administrative regions : Katcha, Lokoja, Pategi
Sub-basin area
70,6km²
Upstream area
1 699 888,6km²
Discharge
2 565,48m³/s
Mean elev.
57m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger961 km²
- Bassin de River Gbako149 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 37.3 km²53.0% of basin
- 32.1 km²45.7% of basin
- 0.9 km²1.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lower Kaduna-Middle Niger Floodplain
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
65.96 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°
28,1°C
Annual rain
1 172mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
420mm/an
PET
1 859mm
AET
943mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
20cm
Forest
62%
Crops
34%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)