HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080842990
Bassin de Benue
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bénoué, Fufore, Song
Sub-basin area
631,1km²
Upstream area
97 222,5km²
Discharge
632,8m³/s
Mean elev.
251m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Faro1083 km²
- Bassin de Bénoué4 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 459.3 km²73.1% of basin
- 100.6 km²16.0% of basin
- 68.7 km²10.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
108 distinct species · 326 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Benue : 17 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
962mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
170mm/an
PET
1 971mm
AET
810mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
121cm
Forest
0%
Crops
21%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)