HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080845240
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
919,2km²
Upstream area
65 747,4km²
Discharge
326,55m³/s
Mean elev.
218m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bénoué867 km²
- Bassin de Bénoué413 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
135 distinct species · 238 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°
27,7°C
Annual rain
1 007mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
206mm/an
PET
1 973mm
AET
836mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
121cm
Forest
0%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)