HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080197050
Bassin de Mopi
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 : Asmat, Nduga, Yahukimo
Sub-basin area
1 811,8km²
Upstream area
1 811,8km²
Discharge
69,94m³/s
Mean elev.
761m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1135.0 km²62.9% of basin
- 668.6 km²37.1% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lorentz
IUCN IINational Park
518.93 km² overlap
Lorentz National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
397.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
34 distinct species · 63 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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
3 352mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,54
Runoff
1 285mm/an
PET
1 527mm
AET
1 527mm
Mean slope
9,0°
Water table
255cm
Forest
80%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)