Bima Hill

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 second (82) 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;

  • Kalo (4.4km)
  • Gwani (6.9km)
  • Gadam (9.7km)
  • Nahantsi (11.1km)[4][5][6]

Geography

Bima hill 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]

Composition and Mineral resources

The soil of the Bima hill is moderately acidic in nature after some analysis. Due to the level of concentration of major elements found here, mining is difficult however it is easier to mine the trace elements.

The most abundant metal elements is potassium ,other abundants elements include iron,nickel,copper, chromium,managnese and calcium as well as pedogenic carbonates.[11]

References
  1. "Bima Hills". PeakVisor. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  2. Poly, Hill (1972). Rural Hausa : A Village and Setting. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521082426.
  3. "Shinga, Nigeria - Facts and information on Shinga - Nigeria.Places-in-the-world.com". nigeria.places-in-the-world.com. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  4. "Bima Hills / Bima Hills, Nigeria (general), Nigeria, Africa". travelingluck.com. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  5. "Bima Hills hills, Gombe, Nigeria". ng.geoview.info. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  6. "Gombe Mountains". PeakVisor. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  7. "Bima Hills hills, Gombe, Nigeria". ng.geoview.info. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  8. "Gombe Mountains". PeakVisor. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  9. "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  10. "Bima Hills, Nigeria - Geographical Names, map, geographic coordinates". geographic.org. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  11. Tukur, A.; Samaila, N. K.; Grimes, S. T.; Kariya, I. I.; Chaanda, M. S. (2015). "Two member subdivision of the Bima Sandstone, Upper Benue Trough, Nigeria: Based on sedimentological data". Journal of African Earth Sciences. 104: 140. Bibcode:2015JAfES.104..140T. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2014.10.015.
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