HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080208950
Bassin de Turama 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 3 administrative regions : Kikori, Middle Fly, Nipa-Kutubu
Sub-basin area
733,4km²
Upstream area
733,5km²
Discharge
67,29m³/s
Mean elev.
435m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 465.6 km²63.8% of basin
- 207.8 km²28.5% of basin
- 56.9 km²7.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sulamesi
IUCN Not ReportedWildlife Management Area
89.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 23 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°
24,3°C
Annual rain
4 272mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,62
Runoff
2 834mm/an
PET
1 613mm
AET
1 613mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
112cm
Forest
91%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)