HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080892100
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 : Kabba/Bunu, Lapai, Lokoja
Sub-basin area
1 349,3km²
Upstream area
1 711 356km²
Discharge
2 704,25m³/s
Mean elev.
107m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger1433 km²
- Bassin du Niger986 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 691.7 km²51.5% of basin
- 582.2 km²43.3% of basin
- Kabba/BunuKogi · Nigeria69.8 km²5.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Kakanda Hills
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
215.35 km² overlap
Nugboji
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
55.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
101 distinct species · 4 996 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 : 15 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 13 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
1 177mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
373mm/an
PET
1 818mm
AET
956mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
126cm
Forest
70%
Crops
49%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)