HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080900320
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 2 administrative regions : Agatu, Nasarawa
Sub-basin area
23,4km²
Upstream area
322 096,4km²
Discharge
2 620,5m³/s
Mean elev.
66m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Benue417 km²
- Bassin de Benue108 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 23.2 km²99.7% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 4 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 288mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
427mm/an
PET
1 798mm
AET
998mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
83cm
Forest
21%
Crops
34%
Urban
37%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)