Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site) · nga
Lower Kaduna-Middle Niger Floodplain
- Area
- 2 285 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 2008
Overview
- Designation
- Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
- Established
- 2008
- Managing authority
- Full information available from the Ramsar Sites Information Service (RSIS) website - https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/1755
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
111 distinct species · 311 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 Lower Kaduna-Middle Niger Floodplain : 14 espèces reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology13 basins · 50 lakes · 4 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
362,1km
Lake surface here
12,30km²
Basins crossed
13
Max stream order
8
Max drainage
1 708 574km²
Discharge in basins
7 492,3m³/s
Mean precip.
1 168mm/an
Mean T°
27,9°C
Moisture idx
-0,37
Mean runoff
410mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
115m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin du Nigersub-area960,8 km²overlap587.51 km²26%
- Bassin du Nigersub-area1 469,5 km²overlap517.00 km²23%
- Bassin du Nigersub-area1 954,1 km²overlap457.88 km²20%
- Bassin de Kadunasub-area1 147,7 km²overlap305.97 km²13%
- Bassin de River Gbakosub-area148,6 km²overlap78.80 km²3%
- Bassin du Nigersub-area70,6 km²overlap65.96 km²3%
- Bassin du Nigersub-area67 km²overlap59.64 km²3%
- Bassin du Nigersub-area986 km²overlap52.98 km²2%
- Basin #56480sub-area684,1 km²overlap52.73 km²2%
Lakes (50, top by area)
- Lake #79934area1,1 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Lac 1403223area0,7 km²avg depth2.0 m
- Lac 1403468area0,6 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 1403341area0,4 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1403415area0,4 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1403301area0,4 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1403226area0,4 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1403292area0,4 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 1403265area0,4 km²avg depth1.5 m
41 more lakes
- Lac 1403429area0,3 km²avg depth2.4 m
- Lac 1403349area0,3 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1403218area0,3 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 1403246area0,3 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1403380area0,3 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1403230area0,3 km²avg depth1.6 m
- Lac 1403410area0,3 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1403504area0,3 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lac 1403214area0,3 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 1403336area0,3 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1403430area0,2 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lac 1403326area0,2 km²avg depth1.6 m
- Lac 1403303area0,2 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lac 1403390area0,2 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1403345area0,2 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1403401area0,2 km²avg depth1.6 m
- Lac 1403272area0,2 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1403293area0,2 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Lac 1403368area0,2 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1403441area0,2 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1403259area0,2 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1403204area0,2 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1403229area0,2 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lac 1403436area0,2 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1403220area0,2 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1403455area0,2 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lac 1403448area0,2 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1403228area0,2 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1403396area0,2 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1403249area0,1 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1403469area0,1 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lac 1403480area0,1 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1403329area0,1 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lac 1403190area0,1 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lac 1403277area0,1 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1403295area0,1 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1403330area0,1 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lac 1403387area0,1 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1403459area0,1 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1403454area0,1 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1403227area0,1 km²avg depth0.7 m
Rivers / streams (4, ord ≥ 4)
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 8.89667, 5.69593
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.