HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080185030
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, Keerom, Pegunungan Bintang
Sub-basin area
73,5km²
Upstream area
13 128,9km²
Discharge
526,55m³/s
Mean elev.
239m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sungai Sobger3552 km²
- Bassin de Sungai Taritatu3 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 53.2 km²72.7% of basin
- 19.9 km²27.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Memberamo Foja
IUCN Not ReportedWildlife Reserve
9.27 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
2 358mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,39
Runoff
1 400mm/an
PET
1 429mm
AET
1 428mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
91cm
Forest
92%
Crops
7%
Urban
3%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)