Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081072600

Bassin de Makoum

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

Pfafstetter: 13249560

Sub-basin area

753,6km²

Upstream area

753,7km²

Discharge

9,22m³/s

Mean elev.

645m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Dja41 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

  • Dja

    IUCN Not Applicable

    UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve

    714.77 km² overlap

  • Dja Faunal Reserve

    IUCN Not Applicable

    World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)

    662.72 km² overlap

  • Dja

    IUCN IV

    Wildlife Reserve

    624.54 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

23 distinct species · 40 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

40 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 34
34–33
3–33
1–2
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

23,3°C

Annual rain

1 634mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,03

Runoff

399mm/an

PET

1 589mm

AET

1 266mm

Mean slope

2,5°

Water table

78cm

Forest

94%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

83%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)