HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080186690
Bassin · #5080186690
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 : Lanny Jaya, Puncak Jaya, Tolikara
Sub-basin area
613,8km²
Upstream area
613,8km²
Discharge
34,6m³/s
Mean elev.
2 973m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 597.9 km²97.8% of basin
- 7.6 km²1.2% of basin
- 5.7 km²0.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lorentz National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
18.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 59 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°
12,5°C
Annual rain
3 171mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,61
Runoff
1 735mm/an
PET
1 226mm
AET
1 226mm
Mean slope
16,5°
Water table
445cm
Forest
89%
Crops
13%
Urban
2%
Protected
35%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)