HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081055330
Bassin de Méfou
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 5 administrative regions : Lekié, Mefou et Afamba, Mefou et Akono, Mfoundi, Nyong et So'o
Sub-basin area
807km²
Upstream area
807km²
Discharge
15,08m³/s
Mean elev.
728m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 283.7 km²35.3% of basin
- 208.6 km²26.0% of basin
- 185.0 km²23.0% of basin
- 89.9 km²11.2% of basin
- 36.2 km²4.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 555 distinct species · 26 560 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Méfou : 30 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,7°C
Annual rain
1 669mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
590mm/an
PET
1 537mm
AET
1 240mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
127cm
Forest
71%
Crops
3%
Urban
31%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)