HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081043860
Bassin de Nyong
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 : Haut Nyong
Sub-basin area
343,9km²
Upstream area
794,9km²
Discharge
6,92m³/s
Mean elev.
698m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081045290229 km²
- Bassin de Nyong222 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 342.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
32 distinct species · 61 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 623mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
327mm/an
PET
1 570mm
AET
1 217mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
69cm
Forest
79%
Crops
1%
Urban
2%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)