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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
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)