HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081009630
Bassin de Ménoua
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 7 administrative regions : Bamboutos, Haut Nkam, Hauts Plateaux, Koupé Manengouba, Lebialem +2
Sub-basin area
1 593,9km²
Upstream area
1 594km²
Discharge
72,35m³/s
Mean elev.
1 208m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,0°C
Annual rain
2 187mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,32
Runoff
1 406mm/an
PET
1 475mm
AET
1 140mm
Mean slope
8,5°
Water table
272cm
Forest
63%
Crops
30%
Urban
9%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)