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28 kwi 2022 · River Benue is an international river flo wing into Nigeria, originating from the highlands of northern Camer oon [21]. The river runs for about 900 km from the border to the confluence with ...
River Benue is one of the two major rivers in Nigeria. It starts from the Cameroon Mountains and flows westwards through Makurdi to meet the river Niger at Lokoja in Kogi State.
River Benue has two major hydrological water provinces in Nigeria - the Upper Benue and the Lower Benue. In Nigeria, River Benue is fed by tributaries from the two water provinces. Some of the major tributaries are Rivers Gongola, Kilunga, Mayo Ini, Mayo Belwa, Taraba, Donga, Ankwe and Katsina-Ala.
1 lip 2022 · River Benue is an international river flowing into Nigeria, originating from the highlands of northern Cameroon [21]. The river runs for about 900 km from the border to the confluence with River Niger at Lokoja, Kogi State [22]. River Benue has two major hydrological water provinces in Nigeria - the Upper Benue and the Lower Benue.
In Nigeria, adequate and accurate, climatic, hydrologic, hydrogeologic, and other associated environmental data for irrigation and drainage are scarcely available, especially for the Lokoja area which hosts the confluence of Rivers Niger and Benue within the Lower-Niger-River Basin Development area.
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 .
The Niger River is the most prominent Basin in Nigeria. The five Hydrological Areas that comprise the lower Niger Basin drain almost two-thirds of the country and account for about 60 percent of total runoff.
