HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080926200
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 2 administrative regions : Ajaokuta, Ofu
Sub-basin area
71,8km²
Upstream area
2 072 329,5km²
Discharge
5 797,63m³/s
Mean elev.
80m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Niger363 km²
- Bassin · #1080924140323 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 49.5 km²69.2% of basin
- 22.0 km²30.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
1 238mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
573mm/an
PET
1 731mm
AET
1 008mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
152cm
Forest
17%
Crops
47%
Urban
23%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)