HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080972450
Bassin de Menchum
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 : Boyo, Mezam
Sub-basin area
16,2km²
Upstream area
1 694,4km²
Discharge
63,36m³/s
Mean elev.
669m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mugom393 km²
- Bassin de Menchum66 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 10.7 km²66.1% of basin
- 5.5 km²33.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 30 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
2 095mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,21
Runoff
1 168mm/an
PET
1 662mm
AET
1 170mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
231cm
Forest
11%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)