HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080879940
Bassin de Benue
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 10 administrative regions : Bogoro, Ibi, Kanam, Kanke, Langtang North +5
Sub-basin area
5 027,4km²
Upstream area
5 027,4km²
Discharge
34,32m³/s
Mean elev.
455m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1533.7 km²30.6% of basin
- 1259.1 km²25.1% of basin
- 1138.7 km²22.7% of basin
- 564.7 km²11.3% of basin
- 188.9 km²3.8% of basin
- 125.6 km²2.5% of basin
- 108.7 km²2.2% of basin
- Tafawa-BalewaBauchi · Nigeria53.1 km²1.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Central Wase
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
10.09 km² overlap
Gerkawa Hill
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
8.70 km² overlap
Lantang
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
6.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
398 distinct species · 5 865 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Benue : 17 espèces reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 107mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
249mm/an
PET
1 862mm
AET
872mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
195cm
Forest
0%
Crops
47%
Urban
1%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)