HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080849120
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
15,5km²
Upstream area
62 906km²
Discharge
322,77m³/s
Mean elev.
185m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bénoué997 km²
- Bassin de Bénoué518 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
289 distinct species · 869 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Bénoué : 24 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
1 016mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
222mm/an
PET
1 971mm
AET
840mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
47cm
Forest
0%
Crops
16%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)