HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080153100
Bassin de Sungai Melawi
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 2 administrative regions : Melawi, Sintang
Sub-basin area
768,1km²
Upstream area
7 481,4km²
Discharge
503,79m³/s
Mean elev.
279m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sungai Melawi614 km²
- Bassin de Sungai Melawi78 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Sintang762.8 km²99.8% of basin
- 1.8 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
2 986mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
1 803mm/an
PET
1 562mm
AET
1 553mm
Mean slope
8,6°
Water table
255cm
Forest
46%
Crops
31%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)