HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080197280
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 : Kandep, Lagaip-Porgera
Sub-basin area
595,1km²
Upstream area
595,1km²
Discharge
39,26m³/s
Mean elev.
2 438m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 498.8 km²84.2% of basin
- 93.8 km²15.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
90 distinct species · 271 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°
14,6°C
Annual rain
3 380mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,61
Runoff
2 124mm/an
PET
1 316mm
AET
1 316mm
Mean slope
17,1°
Water table
410cm
Forest
96%
Crops
2%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)