HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080876870
Bassin de River Gurara
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 5 administrative regions : Abaji, Gwagwalada, Kuje, Kwali, Lapai
Sub-basin area
1 304,7km²
Upstream area
11 514km²
Discharge
137,24m³/s
Mean elev.
170m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Usuma1032 km²
- Bassin de Usuma119 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 567.1 km²43.6% of basin
- 379.7 km²29.2% of basin
- 315.9 km²24.3% of basin
- 35.6 km²2.7% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kpashimi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
157.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
101 distinct species · 251 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 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 de River Gurara : 13 espèces reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 233mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
362mm/an
PET
1 837mm
AET
955mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
170cm
Forest
31%
Crops
22%
Urban
5%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)