HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080197220
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 5 administrative regions : Angoram, Kandep, Lagaip-Porgera, Wabag, Wapenamanda
Sub-basin area
2 101,1km²
Upstream area
2 101,3km²
Discharge
127,79m³/s
Mean elev.
2 573m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2018.9 km²96.5% of basin
- 66.4 km²3.2% of basin
- 5.0 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
535 distinct species · 1 104 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°
13,8°C
Annual rain
2 953mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,56
Runoff
1 957mm/an
PET
1 293mm
AET
1 293mm
Mean slope
15,3°
Water table
422cm
Forest
93%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)