HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080909890
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 5 administrative regions : Adavi, Kabba/Bunu, Kogi, Lokoja, Okehi
Sub-basin area
2 639,8km²
Upstream area
1 730 224,9km²
Discharge
2 922,67m³/s
Mean elev.
234m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Gurara435 km²
- Bassin du Niger24 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1587.6 km²60.4% of basin
- 446.8 km²17.0% of basin
- Kabba/BunuKogi · Nigeria438.3 km²16.7% of basin
- 113.4 km²4.3% of basin
- 42.5 km²1.6% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
Bunu
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
234.37 km² overlap
Agbaja
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
147.46 km² overlap
Oinye
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
99.50 km² overlap
Osara
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
84.04 km² overlap
Swamp
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
60.07 km² overlap
Adankolo
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
29.87 km² overlap
Kakanda Hills
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
27.03 km² overlap
Adaki
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
13.13 km² overlap
Chokochoko
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
10.42 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Olle
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
6.84 km² overlap
Gabo Escarpment
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
6.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
589 distinct species · 2 729 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 : 20 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 198mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
398mm/an
PET
1 748mm
AET
977mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
240cm
Forest
82%
Crops
64%
Urban
5%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)