HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080197250
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 2 administrative regions : Angoram, Lagaip-Porgera
Sub-basin area
265,7km²
Upstream area
2 929,3km²
Discharge
183,15m³/s
Mean elev.
1 742m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lagaip River2101 km²
- Bassin de Porgera River562 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 262.9 km²99.4% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
45 distinct species · 52 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°
18,2°C
Annual rain
3 194mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,54
Runoff
2 082mm/an
PET
1 474mm
AET
1 474mm
Mean slope
20,6°
Water table
528cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)