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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
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)