Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080906400

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 : Awe, Guma, Logo

Pfafstetter: 14223015

Sub-basin area

153,8km²

Upstream area

276 390,6km²

Discharge

1 771,93m³/s

Mean elev.

123m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

23 distinct species · 46 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

46 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 46
46–45
46–45
46–45
< 46

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

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

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

27,2°C

Annual rain

1 263mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,30

Runoff

378mm/an

PET

1 809mm

AET

987mm

Mean slope

1,5°

Water table

172cm

Forest

78%

Crops

33%

Urban

10%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)