HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080182880
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 2 administrative regions : Jayapura, Yalimo
Sub-basin area
120,1km²
Upstream area
23 535,1km²
Discharge
1 076,79m³/s
Mean elev.
107m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sungai Taritatu604 km²
- Bassin de Sungai Taritatu594 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 112.1 km²93.7% of basin
- 7.5 km²6.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Memberamo Foja
IUCN Not ReportedWildlife Reserve
44.15 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
2 562mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,39
Runoff
912mm/an
PET
1 557mm
AET
1 557mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
34cm
Forest
100%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
71%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)