HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080965440
Bassin de Mbam
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Mayo Banyo, Sardauna
Sub-basin area
1 087,5km²
Upstream area
1 087,8km²
Discharge
20,77m³/s
Mean elev.
1 208m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1069.5 km²98.8% of basin
- 13.3 km²1.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gashaka-Gumti
IUCN IINational Park
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
151 distinct species · 236 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,1°C
Annual rain
1 735mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
613mm/an
PET
1 641mm
AET
1 102mm
Mean slope
5,8°
Water table
246cm
Forest
46%
Crops
23%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)