HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080892990
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 : Kogi, Lapai, Lokoja
Sub-basin area
24,4km²
Upstream area
1 712 299km²
Discharge
2 715,14m³/s
Mean elev.
48m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger1349 km²
- Bassin du Niger919 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 14.9 km²61.5% of basin
- 7.5 km²30.7% of basin
- 1.9 km²7.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
1 173mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
358mm/an
PET
1 812mm
AET
961mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
25cm
Forest
43%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)