HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080022020
Bassin de Essene Creek
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 : Ikot Abasi, Khana, Opobo/Nkoro
Sub-basin area
19,3km²
Upstream area
7 900,4km²
Discharge
384,05m³/s
Mean elev.
6m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Essene Creek594 km²
- Bassin de Imo River41 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 13.4 km²69.5% of basin
- 3.2 km²16.5% of basin
- 2.6 km²13.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 17 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 2 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 Essene Creek : 2 espèces reliées par 1 interaction GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 100.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,7°C
Annual rain
3 481mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,55
Runoff
1 565mm/an
PET
1 560mm
AET
1 378mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
9cm
Forest
97%
Crops
18%
Urban
59%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)