HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080964040
Bassin de Canal d'Akôdji
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 6 administrative regions across 2 countries : Adjarra, Aguégués, Avrankou, Badagry, Porto-Novo +1
Sub-basin area
141,1km²
Upstream area
7 333,6km²
Discharge
67,08m³/s
Mean elev.
10m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gli-Awoyo1015 km²
- Bassin · #1080963590173 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 45.6 km²32.4% of basin
- 41.9 km²29.9% of basin
- 32.7 km²23.3% of basin
- 9.3 km²6.6% of basin
- 7.9 km²5.6% of basin
- 3.1 km²2.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
136.99 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 531 distinct species · 6 154 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Canal d'Akôdji : 32 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 323mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
511mm/an
PET
1 431mm
AET
1 013mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
68cm
Forest
77%
Crops
10%
Urban
75%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)