HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080902410
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 : Doma, Nasarawa
Sub-basin area
107,1km²
Upstream area
107,1km²
Discharge
1,43m³/s
Mean elev.
103m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 71.3 km²66.9% of basin
- 35.3 km²33.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Doma
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
36.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 304mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
422mm/an
PET
1 796mm
AET
1 002mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
90cm
Forest
69%
Crops
61%
Urban
6%
Protected
34%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)