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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.
The northern part of the river, known as the Niger bend, is an important area because it is the major river and source of water in that part of the Sahara. This made it the focal point of trade across the western Sahara and the centre of the Sahelian kingdoms of Mali and Gao .
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.
Benue lub Bénoué – rzeka w zachodniej Afryce, w Kamerunie i Nigerii. Główny dopływ Nigru. Długa na około 1400 km. W porze deszczowej jest żeglowna aż do miasta Garoua. Z tego względu w miesiącach letnich staje się szlakiem transportowym.
7 paź 2024 · At Lokoja the river receives the water of its greatest tributary, the Benue, thereby approximately doubling the volume of its annual discharge. At their confluence the Niger is about three-fourths of a mile (1 km) wide, and the Benue more than a mile.
5 kwi 2023 · The Benue River is a 870-mile-long river that flows from Cameroon to Nigeria and joins the Niger River. It is a major transportation route, a biodiversity hotspot, and a source of petroleum, cotton, and peanuts.
1 sie 2023 · The arrival of large sediments into Rivers Niger and Benue will form new bars, transport existing ones and change riverbed morphology by raising or shallowing them, encouraging flooding of their channels and confluence area.
