HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080189980
Bassin de Wagasu River
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 : Ambunti-Dreikikir, Nuku, Telefomin
Sub-basin area
1 068,6km²
Upstream area
1 068,8km²
Discharge
35,66m³/s
Mean elev.
215m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 800.6 km²75.3% of basin
- 196.4 km²18.5% of basin
- 66.9 km²6.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
44 distinct species · 99 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 497mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 072mm/an
PET
1 561mm
AET
1 544mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
158cm
Forest
51%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)