HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080911330
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 1 administrative regions : Makurdi
Sub-basin area
6,9km²
Upstream area
302 978,6km²
Discharge
2 457,94m³/s
Mean elev.
79m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Benue2235 km²
- Bassin de Benue246 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 6 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 300mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
442mm/an
PET
1 795mm
AET
1 006mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
65cm
Forest
39%
Crops
14%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)