HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080981780
Bassin de Benin River
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 : Warri North
Sub-basin area
182,3km²
Upstream area
8 157,8km²
Discharge
391,54m³/s
Mean elev.
10m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ohi3817 km²
- Bassin de Benin River340 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 181.5 km²100.0% of basin
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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
2 471mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 497mm/an
PET
1 556mm
AET
1 232mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
19cm
Forest
96%
Crops
24%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)