HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080168340
Bassin de Batang Merangin
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 1 administrative regions : Merangin
Sub-basin area
260,1km²
Upstream area
2 273,4km²
Discharge
75,51m³/s
Mean elev.
703m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Batang Merangin906 km²
- Bassin de Air Penetai197 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Kerinci Seblat
IUCN IINational Park
199.71 km² overlap
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
121.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 28 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°
23,1°C
Annual rain
2 628mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
1 180mm/an
PET
1 542mm
AET
1 501mm
Mean slope
9,9°
Water table
222cm
Forest
100%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
47%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)