HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080313740
Bassin de Šešupė / Шешупе
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 across 2 countries : Krasnoznamenskiy rayon, Vilkaviškio, Šakių
Sub-basin area
51,2km²
Upstream area
4 660,7km²
Discharge
35,12m³/s
Mean elev.
40m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Šešupė1469 km²
- Bassin de Туманная1414 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 39.8 km²77.4% of basin
- 9.8 km²19.0% of basin
- 1.8 km²3.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Šešupė ir jos slėniai
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.58 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
2.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 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°
6,8°C
Annual rain
636mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
262mm/an
PET
670mm
AET
500mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
34cm
Forest
13%
Crops
63%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)