HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080131990
Bassin de Кукша
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 : Levozerskiy rayon
Sub-basin area
20,9km²
Upstream area
2 456,2km²
Discharge
27,22m³/s
Mean elev.
157m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Элнйок1820 km²
- Bassin de Кукша616 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Levozerskiy rayonMurmansk · Russia21.0 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
-0,5°C
Annual rain
492mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,24
Runoff
306mm/an
PET
374mm
AET
318mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
56cm
Forest
41%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)