HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080892240
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
919,2km²
Upstream area
919,2km²
Discharge
11,73m³/s
Mean elev.
273m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Kabba/BunuKogi · Nigeria695.3 km²76.0% of basin
- 216.8 km²23.7% of basin
- 3.2 km²0.4% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Bunu
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
210.94 km² overlap
Kakanda Hills
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
126.23 km² overlap
Olle
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
39.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
97 distinct species · 238 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 du Niger : 12 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 11 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 195mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
404mm/an
PET
1 754mm
AET
973mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
246cm
Forest
95%
Crops
80%
Urban
0%
Protected
41%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)