World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · chn
Badain Jaran Desert - Towers of Sand and Lakes
- Area
- 7 299 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 2024
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 2024
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
28 distinct species · 35 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 7 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Badain Jaran Desert - Towers of Sand and Lakes : 6 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 6 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 28.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 32 lakes · 0 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Lake surface here
12,53km²
Basins crossed
9
Max drainage
7 420km²
Discharge in basins
0,1m³/s
Mean precip.
80mm/an
Mean T°
7,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,92
Max snow
3%
Mean runoff
2mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 366m
Watersheds crossing here
- Basin #40200sub-area2 859,2 km²overlap2289.57 km²31%
- Basin #64350sub-area2 147,2 km²overlap1911.91 km²26%
- Basin #64110sub-area2 413,1 km²overlap1855.62 km²25%
- Basin #53980sub-area1 896,5 km²overlap475.45 km²7%
- Basin #53330sub-area2 400,6 km²overlap309.35 km²4%
- Basin #54820sub-area1 487 km²overlap167.37 km²2%
- Basin #56690sub-area953 km²overlap143.90 km²2%
- Basin #40360sub-area696,5 km²overlap102.13 km²1%
- Basin #65950sub-area197,6 km²overlap43.86 km²1%
Lakes (32, top by area)
- Lake #72915area1,3 km²avg depth10.6 m
- Lake #72907area1,1 km²avg depth15.6 m
- Lac 1366914area1 km²avg depth8.1 m
- Lac 1366953area0,9 km²avg depth6.3 m
- Lac 1366916area0,8 km²avg depth6.6 m
- Lac 1367060area0,8 km²avg depth5.7 m
- Lac 1367026area0,5 km²avg depth7.2 m
- Lac 1366855area0,4 km²avg depth6.9 m
- Lac 1366782area0,4 km²avg depth8.9 m
23 more lakes
- Lac 1367119area0,4 km²avg depth5.6 m
- Lac 1366848area0,3 km²avg depth7.5 m
- Lac 1366950area0,3 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 1366753area0,3 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lac 1367096area0,3 km²avg depth5.1 m
- Lac 1366938area0,3 km²avg depth6.5 m
- Lac 1366920area0,3 km²avg depth5.1 m
- Lac 1366738area0,3 km²avg depth6.9 m
- Lac 1366999area0,3 km²avg depth8.3 m
- Lac 1366983area0,3 km²avg depth5.0 m
- Lac 1366816area0,3 km²avg depth4.3 m
- Lac 1366826area0,2 km²avg depth5.9 m
- Lac 1366717area0,2 km²avg depth6.0 m
- Lac 1366980area0,2 km²avg depth6.6 m
- Lac 1366963area0,2 km²avg depth5.1 m
- Lac 1366966area0,2 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 1366997area0,2 km²avg depth5.6 m
- Lac 1366915area0,2 km²avg depth6.0 m
- Lac 1367225area0,2 km²avg depth4.9 m
- Lac 1366802area0,2 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lac 1367010area0,2 km²avg depth4.4 m
- Lac 1367070area0,1 km²avg depth5.2 m
- Lac 1367083area0,1 km²avg depth6.0 m
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 39.88931, 102.28280
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.