HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080902860
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 3 administrative regions : Agatu, Doma, Nasarawa
Sub-basin area
74,7km²
Upstream area
311 661,2km²
Discharge
2 505,83m³/s
Mean elev.
74m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Benue1137 km²
- Bassin de Benue5 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 35.0 km²47.1% of basin
- 26.3 km²35.3% of basin
- 13.1 km²17.6% of basin
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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 304mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
430mm/an
PET
1 796mm
AET
1 007mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
97cm
Forest
65%
Crops
45%
Urban
31%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)