HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080186210
Bassin de Sungai Baliem
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 : Jayawijaya, Lanny Jaya
Sub-basin area
300,8km²
Upstream area
2 880,5km²
Discharge
157,24m³/s
Mean elev.
2 662m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #5080186690614 km²
- Bassin de Sungai Baliem228 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 279.0 km²93.2% of basin
- 20.5 km²6.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lorentz
IUCN IINational Park
118.20 km² overlap
Lorentz National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
106.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
69 distinct species · 379 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°
14,2°C
Annual rain
2 949mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,55
Runoff
1 502mm/an
PET
1 303mm
AET
1 303mm
Mean slope
16,5°
Water table
484cm
Forest
77%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
52%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)