HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080153300
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
678,4km²
Upstream area
11 867km²
Discharge
715,56m³/s
Mean elev.
57m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sungai Melawi1175 km²
- Bassin de Senempak848 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 672.3 km²99.5% of basin
- Sintang3.0 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 8 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
3 095mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
1 515mm/an
PET
1 615mm
AET
1 615mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
48cm
Forest
3%
Crops
54%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)