HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080195090
Bassin de Mbua
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 4 administrative regions : Asmat, Jayawijaya, Lanny Jaya, Nduga
Sub-basin area
1 271,6km²
Upstream area
1 271,8km²
Discharge
68,53m³/s
Mean elev.
1 424m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1004.8 km²79.4% of basin
- 216.4 km²17.1% of basin
- 41.0 km²3.2% of basin
- 3.9 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lorentz
IUCN IINational Park
953.95 km² overlap
Lorentz National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
835.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 6 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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
3 291mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,55
Runoff
1 763mm/an
PET
1 456mm
AET
1 456mm
Mean slope
16,8°
Water table
522cm
Forest
87%
Crops
10%
Urban
1%
Protected
66%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)