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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 ...
1 sie 2023 · Time-series Landsat imagery (1987–2022) was used to map planform changes at the confluence of Rivers Niger and Benue. The analysis revealed that the position of the confluence and its tip shift annually within a zone of up to 2.2 km wide.
The Lower River Niger system played the powerful role of an inland transport network for the British colonial exploration and exploitation of Nigeria from the 1830s to the late 1950s.
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 sub-continent of Africa. The peoples of the Cross River state of today--the
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.
28 lip 2024 · The realization of the importance of River Benue to African development and Nigerian growth has sparked scholarly interest and calls for further epistemological expansion.
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
