HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080559750
Bassin de Râul Jiu
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 6 administrative regions : Aninoasa, Branesti, Grozesti, Ionesti, Plopsoru +1
Sub-basin area
75,7km²
Upstream area
3 829,5km²
Discharge
24,24m³/s
Mean elev.
165m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Râul Jiu423 km²
- Bassin de Râul Jiu364 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 24.8 km²32.7% of basin
- 21.4 km²28.2% of basin
- 15.5 km²20.4% of basin
- 13.4 km²17.7% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.6% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Coridorul Jiului
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
13.50 km² overlap
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°
10,9°C
Annual rain
596mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
164mm/an
PET
967mm
AET
509mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
257cm
Forest
28%
Crops
46%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)