HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081017650
Bassin de Sanaga
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 : Haute Sanaga
Sub-basin area
720,8km²
Upstream area
63 259km²
Discharge
914,94m³/s
Mean elev.
629m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sanaga2294 km²
- Bassin de Likiri2008 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 717.7 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 9 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°
24,3°C
Annual rain
1 522mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
315mm/an
PET
1 614mm
AET
1 108mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
93cm
Forest
98%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)