National Park · ben
W (Benin)
- Area
- 5 784 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1954
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1954
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 429 distinct species · 47 420 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 107 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 (Benin) : 29 espèces dont 4 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 223 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 3.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 86 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology16 basins · 0 lakes · 19 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
468,0km
Basins crossed
16
Max stream order
8
Max drainage
1 251 590km²
Discharge in basins
330,9m³/s
Mean precip.
800mm/an
Mean T°
28,3°C
Moisture idx
-0,60
Mean runoff
79mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
250m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Kompa Gourousub-area2 020,9 km²overlap1792.16 km²31%
- Bassin de Pakosub-area1 592,6 km²overlap1115.30 km²19%
- Bassin de Mékrousub-area1 670 km²overlap896.36 km²15%
- Bassin de Mékrousub-area1 353,7 km²overlap684.80 km²12%
- Bassin de Aliborisub-area1 513,4 km²overlap633.82 km²11%
- Bassin de Mékrousub-area2 585,7 km²overlap285.18 km²5%
- Bassin de Kaissagourousub-area150,6 km²overlap134.35 km²2%
- Bassin de Aliborisub-area649,1 km²overlap95.02 km²2%
- Bassin de Aliborisub-area389,2 km²overlap90.91 km²2%
7 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Kérémousub-area656 km²overlap25.66 km²0%
- Bassin de Ruisseausub-area2 210,4 km²overlap15.90 km²0%
- Bassin de Dallol Bossosub-area28,2 km²overlap4.75 km²0%
- Bassin du Nigersub-area337,4 km²overlap3.90 km²0%
- Bassin du Nigersub-area254,6 km²overlap3.13 km²0%
- Bassin du Nigersub-area30,5 km²overlap2.19 km²0%
- Bassin de Aliborisub-area1 844,8 km²overlap0.09 km²0%
Rivers / streams (19, ord ≥ 4)
- Mékrouord 5len here179.98 km29%total630 km
- Pakoord 4len here96.14 km76%total127 km
- Aliboriord 5len here63.49 km12%total519 km
- Goudragoord 3len here19.05 km86%total22 km
- Ruisseauord 8len here16.59 km3%total557 km
- Kompa Gourouord 4len here15.25 km41%total37 km
- Poumouord 3len here14.76 km99%total15 km
- Borodarouord 3len here14.66 km55%total27 km
- Yabodouord 2len here9.33 km57%total16 km
- Loumbou Loumbouord 2len here7.18 km34%total21 km
- pakoord 4len here6.46 km100%total6 km
- Kérémouord 3len here5.47 km16%total34 km
7 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 11.88490, 2.70776
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.