HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080186760
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 1 administrative regions : Lanny Jaya
Sub-basin area
227,9km²
Upstream area
1 965,7km²
Discharge
108,49m³/s
Mean elev.
2 830m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Baliem-Timur1187 km²
- Bassin de Sungai Baliem551 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 226.9 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lorentz National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
140.40 km² overlap
Lorentz
IUCN IINational Park
126.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
13,3°C
Annual rain
3 083mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,59
Runoff
1 680mm/an
PET
1 259mm
AET
1 259mm
Mean slope
16,9°
Water table
495cm
Forest
79%
Crops
20%
Urban
4%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)