HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080899140
Bassin de Benué
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 4 administrative regions : Bassa, Nasarawa, Omala, Toto
Sub-basin area
126,7km²
Upstream area
324 642,1km²
Discharge
2 652,41m³/s
Mean elev.
72m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10808987501074 km²
- Bassin de Benue748 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 57.2 km²45.3% of basin
- 34.3 km²27.1% of basin
- 26.0 km²20.6% of basin
- 8.7 km²6.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 248mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
404mm/an
PET
1 793mm
AET
986mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
101cm
Forest
50%
Crops
63%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)