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Benue River (French: la Bénoué), previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is the major tributary of the Niger River. [2] The size of its catchment basin is 319,000 km 2 (123,000 sq mi). Almost its entire length of approximately 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) is navigable during the summer months. [3] [1] As a result, it is an important transportation route in the regions through which it ...
In Nigeria there are eight main river basins, i.e. the Benue, Delta and Cross Rivers, the Imo-Anambra, Hadejia-Chad, Sokoto-Rima, Niger, Owena and Ogun, and Osun Basins. There have been a number of major engineering developments in these basins, beginning with the Kainji Dam impoundment on the River Niger in 1968 (Oyedipe, 1983).
1 sty 2009 · The Benue Trough of Nigeria is a rift basin in central West Africa that extends NNE–SSW for about 800 km in length and 150 km in width. The southern limit is the northern boundary of the Niger Delta, while the northern limit is the southern boundary of the Chad Basin (Fig. 4.1).
The Benue Trough is a major geological structure underlying a large part of Nigeria and extending about 1,000 km northeast from the Bight of Benin to Lake Chad. It is part of the broader West and Central African Rift System .
The major river in the watershed is the River Benue that has its origins in the Adamawa Plateau of Northern Cameroon and flows south-west to meet with River Niger in Lokoja. The River...
27 lip 2024 · In Nigeria, the River Benue flows through both central and eastern regions and rests on the basins of Lokoja in Kogi State. The societal development of Yola, including transportation, agriculture, and fishing, has always largely relied on the river’s attributes.
8 paź 2021 · the 3km buffer around Niger and Benue river, river Niger- Benue basin and the heigh components of their geograph ical locations as made conspicuous by the DEM.
