HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080210480
Bassin de Mbwei 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 : Kerema, Kikori, Menyamya
Sub-basin area
547,4km²
Upstream area
547,4km²
Discharge
20,17m³/s
Mean elev.
1 057m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 353.6 km²64.9% of basin
- 185.9 km²34.1% of basin
- 5.5 km²1.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 14 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
2 976mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
1 178mm/an
PET
1 571mm
AET
1 562mm
Mean slope
15,8°
Water table
491cm
Forest
98%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)