HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081017500
Bassin de Njim
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
133,2km²
Upstream area
5 554,9km²
Discharge
62,36m³/s
Mean elev.
559m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ndjim2600 km²
- Bassin de Mpem1760 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 132.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mpem et Djim
IUCN IINational Park
0.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
123 distinct species · 750 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 528mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
315mm/an
PET
1 616mm
AET
1 113mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
105cm
Forest
100%
Crops
25%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)