National Park · nga
Cross River
- Area
- 3 297 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1991
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1991
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
746 distinct species · 1 822 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Cross River : 16 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology13 basins · 0 lakes · 15 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
497,3km
Basins crossed
13
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
16 932km²
Discharge in basins
799,7m³/s
Mean precip.
2 543mm/an
Mean T°
25,9°C
Moisture idx
0,36
Mean runoff
1 741mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
198m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Akpakorumsub-area2 444,3 km²overlap922.88 km²28%
- Bassin de Magbesub-area1 620,7 km²overlap551.60 km²17%
- Bassin de Akatamsub-area430,2 km²overlap393.15 km²12%
- Bassin de Calabarsub-area1 839,3 km²overlap385.29 km²12%
- Bassin de Great Kwasub-area1 705,9 km²overlap355.01 km²11%
- Bassin de Upkonsub-area745,9 km²overlap238.76 km²7%
- Bassin de Auasub-area727,2 km²overlap233.08 km²7%
- Bassin de Crosssub-area101,3 km²overlap65.44 km²2%
- Bassin de Cross Riversub-area828,8 km²overlap48.91 km²1%
Rivers / streams (15, ord ≥ 4)
- Akatamord 4len here83.84 km86%total97 km
- Calabarord 5len here68.57 km27%total253 km
- River Ebeord 4len here49.80 km85%total59 km
- Aning Riverord 3len here49.79 km100%total50 km
- Upkonord 3len here49.23 km28%total178 km
- Magbeord 4len here42.11 km32%total130 km
- Nkanyaord 3len here36.31 km96%total38 km
- River Ekuord 4len here28.97 km87%total33 km
- Achanord 4len here28.95 km59%total49 km
- Ikpan Riverord 4len here20.19 km23%total87 km
- Crossord 7len here12.43 km2%total612 km
- Great Kwaord 5len here11.91 km5%total222 km
3 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 5.45915, 8.46172
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.