HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080197080
Bassin de Lagaip 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 4 administrative regions : Ambunti-Dreikikir, Angoram, Koroba-Kopiago, Lagaip-Porgera
Sub-basin area
1 612,4km²
Upstream area
5 122,9km²
Discharge
334,46m³/s
Mean elev.
1 534m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lagaip River595 km²
- Bassin de Lagaip River266 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 878.4 km²54.7% of basin
- 703.9 km²43.8% of basin
- 21.7 km²1.3% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 21 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°
19,4°C
Annual rain
3 361mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,55
Runoff
2 067mm/an
PET
1 500mm
AET
1 500mm
Mean slope
21,8°
Water table
580cm
Forest
94%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)