| Kaduna River | |
| Subdivision Type1: | Countries |
| Length: | 550km (340miles) |
| Discharge1 Avg: | 523m3/s |
| Mouth: | Niger River |
| Basin Size: | 65878km2 |
The Kaduna River is a tributary of the Niger River which flows for 550km (340miles) through Nigeria.[1] It got its name from the crocodiles that lived in the river and surrounding area.[2] Kaduna in the native dialect, Hausa, was the word for "crocodiles".[3] It starts in Plateau State on the Jos Plateau southwest of Jos town, flows through its namesake Kaduna State and through its capital Kaduna, and meets the Niger River in Niger State. Most of its course passes through open savanna woodland, but its lower section has cut several gorges above its entrance into the extensive Niger floodplains.[4] The river is used for fishing and transport of local produce.
Urban and industrial wastes have been linked to elevated temperatures and heavy metal concentrations in the River Kaduna (Arah, 1985). Untreated industrial wastes that are carelessly dumped directly or indirectly into River Kaduna's inflow wastewaters have been determined to be a source of pollution.[5] [6]
Due to recurring floods in Kaduna, the federal government established a flood control project.[7] In 2022, flooding from the Kaduna river caused significant property damage to the surrounding area.[8] In November 2022, two teenagers identified as Zakaria Aliyu Yahaya and Yusuf Abdullahi, aged 17 and 16 of the Government Secondary School in Zaria, reportedly drowned while swimming in the Kogin Mutuwa in Kaduna.[9]
Yearly temperature in Kaduna is 25.2 °C | 77.4 °F. Around 998 mm | 39.3 inch of precipitation falls every year. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 55 °F to 95 °F and is rarely below 50 °F or above 102 °F. Because of its nearness to the equator.[10]
The wet season is warm, oppressive, and overcast and the dry season is hot and partly cloudy. It is very difficult to portray summers in Kaduna definitively. The time of January, February, Walk, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December is generally viewed as the best season for Holiday visitation or visits.[11]