HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080933950
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 3 administrative regions : Bukuru, Katsina-Ala, Ushongo
Sub-basin area
78,4km²
Upstream area
16 879,8km²
Discharge
547,03m³/s
Mean elev.
137m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Katsina Ala697 km²
- Bassin de Katsina Ala115 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 29.3 km²37.5% of basin
- 27.3 km²35.0% of basin
- 21.4 km²27.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Katsina-Ala
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
0.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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 572mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
700mm/an
PET
1 762mm
AET
1 098mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
109cm
Forest
23%
Crops
22%
Urban
20%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)