HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081041070
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 3 administrative regions : Mbam et Inoubou, Nkam, Sanaga Maritime
Sub-basin area
907,7km²
Upstream area
907,7km²
Discharge
24,42m³/s
Mean elev.
714m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 754.1 km²83.4% of basin
- 143.6 km²15.9% of basin
- 6.0 km²0.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
78 distinct species · 107 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
2 246mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,33
Runoff
852mm/an
PET
1 511mm
AET
1 185mm
Mean slope
6,5°
Water table
192cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)