Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080844860

Bassin de Bénoué

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 1 administrative regions : Bénoué

Pfafstetter: 14228501

Sub-basin area

4,1km²

Upstream area

68 991,3km²

Discharge

342,44m³/s

Mean elev.

170m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 distinct species · 2 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

2 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2
2–1
2–1
2–1
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

28,0°C

Annual rain

980mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,51

Runoff

194mm/an

PET

1 982mm

AET

823mm

Mean slope

0,1°

Water table

10cm

Forest

0%

Crops

19%

Urban

22%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)