HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080869800
Bassin de Benue River
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 2 administrative regions : Gassol, Karim Lamido
Sub-basin area
281,4km²
Upstream area
183 371km²
Discharge
834,78m³/s
Mean elev.
139m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Fan2528 km²
- Bassin de Benue River862 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 248.1 km²88.5% of basin
- 32.2 km²11.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kambari
IUCN IVGame Reserve
9.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
1 048mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
163mm/an
PET
1 933mm
AET
867mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
100cm
Forest
32%
Crops
20%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)