HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080181990
Bassin de Sungai Taritatu
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 : Jayapura, Mamberamo Tengah, Sarmi, Yalimo
Sub-basin area
831,5km²
Upstream area
31 523,5km²
Discharge
1 344,09m³/s
Mean elev.
158m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sungai Taritatu281 km²
- Bassin de Sungai Taritatu67 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 446.1 km²53.9% of basin
- 377.3 km²45.6% of basin
- 3.8 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Memberamo Foja
IUCN Not ReportedWildlife Reserve
409.43 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
2 665mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
1 004mm/an
PET
1 570mm
AET
1 569mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
148cm
Forest
84%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
94%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)