HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080183090
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 3 administrative regions : Jayapura, Yahukimo, Yalimo
Sub-basin area
593,5km²
Upstream area
22 811,1km²
Discharge
1 058,11m³/s
Mean elev.
268m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sungai Taritatu1207 km²
- Bassin de Sungai Taritatu686 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 291.9 km²49.4% of basin
- 182.1 km²30.8% of basin
- 116.9 km²19.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Memberamo Foja
IUCN Not ReportedWildlife Reserve
388.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 19 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
2 494mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,39
Runoff
985mm/an
PET
1 512mm
AET
1 511mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
218cm
Forest
96%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
59%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)