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
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
- Bassin de Mayo Tiel3239 km²
- Bassin de Bénoué919 km²
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.
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)