HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080153440
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 3 administrative regions : Katingan, Melawi, Sintang
Sub-basin area
499,1km²
Upstream area
499,5km²
Discharge
24,85m³/s
Mean elev.
511m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 416.8 km²83.9% of basin
- Sintang71.6 km²14.4% of basin
- 8.4 km²1.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bukit Baka - Bukit Raya
IUCN IINational Park
358.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
36 distinct species · 44 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
2 956mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,49
Runoff
1 578mm/an
PET
1 516mm
AET
1 511mm
Mean slope
12,3°
Water table
348cm
Forest
72%
Crops
25%
Urban
0%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)