HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080198500
Bassin de Baliem 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 1 administrative regions : Asmat
Sub-basin area
723,6km²
Upstream area
12 838,2km²
Discharge
531,81m³/s
Mean elev.
18m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mopi1812 km²
- Bassin de Baliem River1145 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 20 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
3 919mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,59
Runoff
2 227mm/an
PET
1 597mm
AET
1 597mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
21cm
Forest
87%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)