HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080905450
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 4 administrative regions : Awe, Guma, Logo, Wukari
Sub-basin area
62km²
Upstream area
276 037km²
Discharge
1 769,89m³/s
Mean elev.
101m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Bakiabu986 km²
- Bassin de Benue382 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 30.9 km²50.0% of basin
- 22.3 km²36.1% of basin
- 8.5 km²13.7% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.2% of basin
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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 258mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
380mm/an
PET
1 812mm
AET
988mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
104cm
Forest
24%
Crops
26%
Urban
11%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)