HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081137100
Bassin de Ivindo
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 4 administrative regions : Ivindo, Lopé, Mouloudnou, Mvoung
Sub-basin area
689,6km²
Upstream area
50 874,2km²
Discharge
860,29m³/s
Mean elev.
522m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ivindo358 km²
- Bassin de Ivindo22 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 620.3 km²90.4% of basin
- 29.2 km²4.2% of basin
- 27.2 km²4.0% of basin
- 9.8 km²1.4% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Parc national de l'Ivindo
IUCN IINational park
403.32 km² overlap
Ivindo National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
400.28 km² overlap
Chute du Fleuve Ivindo
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
181.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
515 distinct species · 2 570 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 7 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 Ivindo : 7 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 6 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 28.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,9°C
Annual rain
1 639mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
507mm/an
PET
1 551mm
AET
1 299mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
119cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
58%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)