HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080948850
Bassin de River Aika
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 : Esan Central, Esan North-East, Esan South-East, Etsako Central, Etsako West
Sub-basin area
263,7km²
Upstream area
3 431km²
Discharge
97,24m³/s
Mean elev.
130m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Aika646 km²
- Bassin de River Edion430 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 130.5 km²49.7% of basin
- 121.6 km²46.3% of basin
- 7.4 km²2.8% of basin
- 2.2 km²0.8% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.4% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Orle River
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
90.45 km² overlap
Orle River
IUCN IVGame Reserve
90.45 km² overlap
Irrua Uromi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
5.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
245 distinct species · 4 360 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 9 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 River Aika : 8 espèces reliées par 6 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 16.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 510mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
1 002mm/an
PET
1 662mm
AET
1 099mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
79cm
Forest
84%
Crops
81%
Urban
14%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)