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The river is then joined by various tributaries but also loses more water to evaporation. The quantity of water entering Nigeria was estimated at 25 km 3 /year before the 1980s and at 13.5 km 3 /year during the 1980s. The most important tributary is the Benue River which merges with the Niger at Lokoja in Nigeria.
This is a list of rivers of Nigeria. [1] This list is arranged by drainage basin and from west to east, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. [ 2 ]
In particular, there seems to exist disagreement as to whether the Nile [3] or the Amazon [4] is the world's longest river. The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in 2007 and 2008 some scientists claimed that the Amazon is longer [5] [6] [7] by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal ...
The Niger is the third longest river in Africa after the Nile and the Congo. It moves 7,000 m 3 /s water at Onitsha, which is more than a hundred times as much as the Thames in London (65 m 3 /s) and almost three times as much as the Missouri river (2,450 m 3 /s) before reaching St. Louis. The Niger also separates Nigeria's populous southwest ...
Benue River (French: la Bénoué), previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is a 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 .
Niger River. 1965: Onitsha Anambra State [S 3] 4: Second Niger bridge ... List of bridges in Nigeria. 1 language ...
This is a list of rivers in Africa. See below each river's article for its tributaries, drainage areas, etc. See below each river's article for its tributaries, drainage areas, etc. Southern Africa
The Anambra River (Igbo: Ọmambala) flows 210 kilometres (130 mi) into the Niger River and is found in Anambra, Nigeria. [3] The river is the most important feeder of the River Niger below Lokoja. The flow of the Ọmambala River is released into the Atlantic through various outlets forming the 25,000-square-kilometre (9,700 sq mi) Niger Delta ...