HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080903650
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, Dekina, Omala, Toto
Sub-basin area
1 408,3km²
Upstream area
1 408,3km²
Discharge
19,76m³/s
Mean elev.
261m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 673.1 km²48.0% of basin
- 656.3 km²46.8% of basin
- 69.6 km²5.0% of basin
- 3.3 km²0.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Dekina
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
75.43 km² overlap
Opandha
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
13.30 km² overlap
Okura Iyale
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
3.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
135 distinct species · 886 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Benué : 16 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
1 272mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
443mm/an
PET
1 721mm
AET
1 002mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
296cm
Forest
75%
Crops
69%
Urban
6%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)