HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080907150
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 3 administrative regions : Bassa, Kogi, Toto
Sub-basin area
247,3km²
Upstream area
338 323,9km²
Discharge
2 825,11m³/s
Mean elev.
63m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Benué541 km²
- Bassin de Benué8 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 104.9 km²42.6% of basin
- 94.2 km²38.3% of basin
- 47.1 km²19.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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 200mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
394mm/an
PET
1 783mm
AET
979mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
118cm
Forest
49%
Crops
56%
Urban
13%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)