HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080200860
Bassin de Lai 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
519,7km²
Upstream area
519,7km²
Discharge
28,7m³/s
Mean elev.
2 577m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 509.3 km²98.4% of basin
- 8.1 km²1.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
38 distinct species · 75 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°
13,7°C
Annual rain
2 592mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,50
Runoff
1 865mm/an
PET
1 282mm
AET
1 282mm
Mean slope
10,3°
Water table
322cm
Forest
74%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)