HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080938380
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Katsina-Ala, Kwande, Manyu, Ussa
Sub-basin area
1 100,7km²
Upstream area
11 779km²
Discharge
407,07m³/s
Mean elev.
341m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bakara2095 km²
- Bassin de Katsina Ala159 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 907.5 km²82.8% of basin
- 121.1 km²11.1% of basin
- 36.0 km²3.3% of basin
- 31.4 km²2.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Takamanda
IUCN IINational Park
11.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
136 distinct species · 490 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 de Katsina Ala : 17 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 826mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
1 005mm/an
PET
1 720mm
AET
1 140mm
Mean slope
7,1°
Water table
298cm
Forest
74%
Crops
58%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)