HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080194720
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, Yahukimo
Sub-basin area
2 210,6km²
Upstream area
7 931,7km²
Discharge
329,82m³/s
Mean elev.
2 003m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sungai Baliem574 km²
- Bassin de Uwe490 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2017.5 km²91.7% of basin
- 183.4 km²8.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lorentz
IUCN IINational Park
289.49 km² overlap
Lorentz National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
51.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
200 distinct species · 450 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Sungai Baliem : 22 espèces reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
17,5°C
Annual rain
3 151mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,55
Runoff
1 163mm/an
PET
1 381mm
AET
1 380mm
Mean slope
19,5°
Water table
588cm
Forest
74%
Crops
14%
Urban
1%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)