HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080985790
Bassin de Mekie
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 : Mbam et Kim
Sub-basin area
466,6km²
Upstream area
466,8km²
Discharge
6,41m³/s
Mean elev.
830m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 464.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mbam et Djerem
IUCN IINational Park
156.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
51 distinct species · 255 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 610mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
423mm/an
PET
1 637mm
AET
1 075mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
196cm
Forest
42%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
34%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)