HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081023900
Bassin de Niep
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 : Mbam et Inoubou, Ndé, Nkam
Sub-basin area
533,6km²
Upstream area
533,7km²
Discharge
18,77m³/s
Mean elev.
545m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 447.3 km²84.2% of basin
- 71.5 km²13.5% of basin
- 12.5 km²2.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 8 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
2 247mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,30
Runoff
1 082mm/an
PET
1 570mm
AET
1 191mm
Mean slope
10,4°
Water table
334cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)