World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · unk
W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
- Area
- 17 464 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 1996
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 1996
- Managing authority
- Direction de la Faune, de la Chasse et des Parcs et Réserves (DFC/PR) et Unité de Gestion de l'Aire Protégée (UGAP)
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 080 distinct species · 92 127 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 W-Arly-Pendjari Complex : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 50 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.5%, 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).
Hydrology41 basins · 3 lakes · 26 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
1 938,6km
Lake surface here
0,50km²
Basins crossed
41
Max stream order
8
Max drainage
1 251 590km²
Discharge in basins
851,7m³/s
Mean precip.
835mm/an
Mean T°
28,3°C
Moisture idx
-0,59
Mean runoff
93mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
246m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Kompa Gourousub-area2 020,9 km²overlap1787.21 km²10%
- Bassin de Ruisseausub-area2 210,4 km²overlap1368.72 km²8%
- Bassin de Mékrousub-area1 670 km²overlap1361.27 km²8%
- Bassin de Mékrousub-area1 353,7 km²overlap1308.78 km²7%
- Bassin de Pakosub-area1 592,6 km²overlap1120.05 km²6%
- Bassin de Mékrousub-area2 585,7 km²overlap1070.91 km²6%
- Bassin de Ruisseausub-area1 001,1 km²overlap997.24 km²6%
- Bassin du Pendjarisub-area1 889,5 km²overlap941.62 km²5%
- Bassin du Pendjarisub-area1 004,5 km²overlap922.38 km²5%
32 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin du Pendjarisub-area802,9 km²overlap788.69 km²5%
- Bassin de Ruisseausub-area825,5 km²overlap776.62 km²4%
- Bassin de Ruisseausub-area932 km²overlap684.71 km²4%
- Bassin de Aliborisub-area1 513,4 km²overlap632.56 km²4%
- Bassin du Pendjarisub-area832,3 km²overlap569.42 km²3%
- Bassin de Doubodosub-area953,2 km²overlap438.64 km²3%
- Bassin de Nigersub-area774,3 km²overlap414.53 km²2%
- Bassin du Pendjarisub-area697,9 km²overlap348.29 km²2%
- Bassin de Arlisub-area285,7 km²overlap224.86 km²1%
- Bassin de Tapoasub-area572,1 km²overlap223.72 km²1%
- Bassin de Tapoasub-area1 308,5 km²overlap217.92 km²1%
- Basin #62490sub-area696,3 km²overlap194.44 km²1%
- Bassin de Doubodosub-area441 km²overlap161.50 km²1%
- Bassin de Singousub-area1 030,6 km²overlap147.06 km²1%
- Bassin de Kaissagourousub-area150,6 km²overlap134.01 km²1%
- Bassin de Ruisseausub-area419,6 km²overlap113.63 km²1%
- Bassin de Doubodosub-area342,3 km²overlap103.64 km²1%
- Bassin de Aliborisub-area649,1 km²overlap94.71 km²1%
- Bassin de Aliborisub-area389,2 km²overlap94.58 km²1%
- Bassin du Pendjarisub-area72,1 km²overlap71.81 km²0%
- Bassin de Tapoasub-area96,4 km²overlap53.21 km²0%
- Bassin de Moribongasub-area1 351 km²overlap34.90 km²0%
- Bassin de Kérémousub-area656 km²overlap26.03 km²0%
- Bassin de Tapoasub-area52,1 km²overlap16.90 km²0%
- Bassin de Doubodosub-area1 143,9 km²overlap8.74 km²0%
- Bassin du Nigersub-area254,6 km²overlap4.40 km²0%
- Bassin du Nigersub-area337,4 km²overlap3.09 km²0%
- Bassin du Nigersub-area30,5 km²overlap1.56 km²0%
- Bassin de Dallol Bossosub-area28,2 km²overlap0.77 km²0%
- Bassin du Pendjarisub-area78,1 km²overlap0.72 km²0%
- Bassin de Aliborisub-area1 844,8 km²overlap0.16 km²0%
- Bassin de Tapoasub-area207,2 km²overlap0.02 km²0%
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (26, ord ≥ 4)
- Ruisseauord 8len here470.45 km84%total557 km
- Ruisseauord 5len here375.98 km88%total429 km
- Mékrouord 5len here329.93 km52%total630 km
- Le Pendjariord 6len here296.41 km59%total505 km
- Pakoord 4len here96.02 km75%total127 km
- Tapoaord 8len here69.83 km17%total401 km
- Aliboriord 5len here63.74 km12%total519 km
- Arliord 5len here51.08 km98%total52 km
- Nigerord 8len here28.03 km3%total943 km
- Doubodoord 5len here25.01 km16%total161 km
- Goudragoord 3len here19.11 km86%total22 km
- Kompa Gourouord 4len here15.19 km41%total37 km
14 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Poumouord 3len here14.89 km100%total15 km
- Borodarouord 3len here14.66 km55%total27 km
- Singouord 4len here9.64 km5%total192 km
- Yabodouord 2len here9.53 km59%total16 km
- Moribongaord 5len here7.80 km62%total12 km
- Loumbou Loumbouord 2len here6.81 km33%total21 km
- pakoord 4len here6.46 km100%total6 km
- Konkongou Fouanouord 1len here5.82 km100%total6 km
- Kérémouord 3len here5.38 km16%total34 km
- Le Mékrouord 4len here5.25 km100%total5 km
- Ponpanouord 2len here5.10 km35%total14 km
- Kaissagourouord 2len here2.77 km23%total12 km
- Saoord 3len here1.92 km9%total22 km
- Kotchéradourouord 1len here1.77 km52%total3 km
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
- 11.76911, 2.49538
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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.