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
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
- Bassin de Benue200 km²
- Bassin de Benue62 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 115.6 km²75.4% of basin
- 33.0 km²21.5% of basin
- 4.6 km²3.0% of basin
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.
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)