HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081087120
Bassin de Kom
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 across 2 countries : Dja et Lobo, Haut-Ntem, Mvila, Ntem, Vallée du Ntem
Sub-basin area
407,4km²
Upstream area
4 674,4km²
Discharge
58,04m³/s
Mean elev.
607m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10810877801870 km²
- Bassin de Kom852 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 285.0 km²70.3% of basin
- 92.3 km²22.8% of basin
- 27.4 km²6.8% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mengame
IUCN IVWildlife Sanctuary
154.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
1 677mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
457mm/an
PET
1 569mm
AET
1 309mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
101cm
Forest
95%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
38%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)