HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080333420
Bassin de Сож
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 : Krychaw, Ms'tsislaw, Shumyachskiy rayon
Sub-basin area
34km²
Upstream area
6 483,6km²
Discharge
41,89m³/s
Mean elev.
163m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Сожанка595 km²
- Bassin de Чорная Натапа521 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Shumyachskiy rayonSmolensk · Russia18.0 km²52.8% of basin
- 15.5 km²45.4% of basin
- Ms'tsislawMogilev · Belarus0.6 km²1.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
5,7°C
Annual rain
612mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
185mm/an
PET
672mm
AET
497mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
163cm
Forest
17%
Crops
60%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)