Bima Hill
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Bima Hill is a hill in Gombe State. It is located in Yamaltu Deba Local Government area. It has a prominence of 404m/1325 feet. [1][2] Bima Hill is the fourth elevated hill in Gombe State out of the twenty three hills. Also, it is the first out of two in Yamaltu Deba. By prominence, Bima hill is the eighty (80) out of two thousand and seventy four( 2074) in Nigeria, the second out of twenty three in Gombe and the first out two Yemaltu Deba.[1]
Localities of Bima Hill
Shinga is a town in Yamaltu/Deba area of Gombe State, Nigeria.[3] It lies at an elevation of 425 meters between the Bima Hills and the left bank of the Gongola River. Shinga is situated 8 km north of Bima Hills. Other nearer villages are;
Geography
Bima hill[5] is located to the left bank of Gongola River with latitude 10.3997°N, 11.5331°E.[7] with the elevation of about 764m[8]
Landmarks
Biryel Government House: 9km SouthEast
Dadin kowa Dam: 10km Southwest
Wade Hills:11km North-East
Deba Fulani: 18km West
The relief is less than 300m which rises above the surrounding land with the climate type of topical savanna.[9]
The feature of the hill is the hypsographic type which is the study and mapping of Earth's topography above the sea level[10]
References
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- ^ "Shinga, Nigeria - Facts and information on Shinga - Nigeria.Places-in-the-world.com". nigeria.places-in-the-world.com. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
- ^ "Bima Hills / Bima Hills, Nigeria (general), Nigeria, Africa". travelingluck.com. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
- ^ a b "Bima Hills hills, Gombe, Nigeria". ng.geoview.info. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
- ^ "Gombe Mountains". PeakVisor. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
- ^ "Bima Hills hills, Gombe, Nigeria". ng.geoview.info. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
- ^ "Gombe Mountains". PeakVisor. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
- ^ "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
- ^ "Bima Hills, Nigeria - Geographical Names, map, geographic coordinates". geographic.org. Retrieved 2022-03-28.