HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080021680
Bassin de Benyo
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 1 administrative regions : Fako
Sub-basin area
450,8km²
Upstream area
450,8km²
Discharge
25,99m³/s
Mean elev.
614m
Administrative coverage
1 intersecting protected areas
Mont Cameroun
IUCN IINational Park
46.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 008 distinct species · 11 599 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 Benyo : 29 espèces reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
21,8°C
Annual rain
2 883mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,53
Runoff
1 837mm/an
PET
1 364mm
AET
1 177mm
Mean slope
6,8°
Water table
102cm
Forest
93%
Crops
7%
Urban
16%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)