HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081022870
Bassin de Yong
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 3 administrative regions : Haut Nyong, Haute Sanaga, Lom et Djerem
Sub-basin area
982,3km²
Upstream area
2 264,1km²
Discharge
22,95m³/s
Mean elev.
688m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ntel213 km²
- Bassin de Ntel1 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 480.9 km²49.2% of basin
- 350.4 km²35.8% of basin
- 146.6 km²15.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wall-Mbargué
IUCN Not ReportedWildlife Reserve
33.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
161 distinct species · 395 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
1 547mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
338mm/an
PET
1 601mm
AET
1 154mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
103cm
Forest
80%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)