HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080021620
Bassin de Wouri
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Moungo, Nkam, Wouri
Sub-basin area
807,7km²
Upstream area
12 236km²
Discharge
617,83m³/s
Mean elev.
47m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wouri490 km²
- Bassin de Wouri192 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 578.5 km²71.9% of basin
- 222.6 km²27.7% of basin
- 3.1 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 195 distinct species · 6 192 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Bassin de Wouri : 30 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,4°C
Annual rain
3 297mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,55
Runoff
1 971mm/an
PET
1 493mm
AET
1 283mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
61cm
Forest
91%
Crops
4%
Urban
12%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)