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The Benue rises in the Adamawa Plateau of northern Cameroon, from where it flows west, and through the town of Garoua and Lagdo Reservoir, into Nigeria south of the Mandara mountains, and through Jimeta, Ibi and Makurdi before meeting the Niger River at Lokoja.
21 wrz 2024 · Benue River, river in western Africa, longest tributary of the Niger, about 673 miles (1,083 km) in length. It rises in northern Cameroon as the Bénoué at about 4,400 feet (1,340 metres) and, in its first 150 miles (240 km), descends more than 2,000 feet (600 metres) over many falls and rapids, the.
5 kwi 2023 · Spanning the countries of Cameroon and Nigeria, the Benue River is a beautiful river that is pivotal in the region. Once known as the Chadda River, it is most prominently known for being one of the largest tributaries of the Niger River , West Africa ’s primary river.
Nigerians is the area of the Benue-Cross river watershed from where, according to the theories of Joseph Greenberg, the ancestors of the Bantu-speakers of Africa set off in their successful bid to conquer and tame the entire southern
Benue State is a legacy of an administrative entity that was carved out of the protectorate of northern Nigeria at the beginning of the twentieth century. The territory was initially known as Munshi Province until 1918 when the name of its dominant geographical feature, the Benue River was adopted.
Article History. Benue, state, east-central Nigeria. A wooded savanna region, it is bounded on the south by Cross River, Ebonyi, and Enugu states, on the west by Kogi state, on the north by Nassawara state, and on the northeast by Taraba state.
maps of that portion of land forming the west bank of the River Niger above and below its confluence with the Benue and often including adjacent portions of the left bank of the Niger is the
