HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080048570
Bassin de Busip River
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 : Huon, Kabwum, Lae, Nawae
Sub-basin area
1 348km²
Upstream area
1 348km²
Discharge
47,85m³/s
Mean elev.
1 749m
Administrative coverage
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1006.7 km²75.0% of basin
- 293.4 km²21.9% of basin
- 41.8 km²3.1% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
YUS
IUCN VIConservation Area
9.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 211 distinct species · 3 468 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 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 Busip River : 11 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 13.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
18,1°C
Annual rain
2 559mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 409mm/an
PET
1 421mm
AET
1 412mm
Mean slope
23,5°
Water table
722cm
Forest
92%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)