HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080927340
Bassin de Katsina Ala
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 : Bukuru, Katsina-Ala
Sub-basin area
174,1km²
Upstream area
18 124,6km²
Discharge
573,8m³/s
Mean elev.
142m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Katsina Ala197 km²
- Bassin de Katsina Ala133 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 139.5 km²80.5% of basin
- 33.9 km²19.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
1 488mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
604mm/an
PET
1 772mm
AET
1 073mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
134cm
Forest
6%
Crops
16%
Urban
14%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)