HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080576510
Bassin de Чегем
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Baksanskiy rayon, Chegemskiy rayon, El'brusskiy rayon, Mestia, Prokhladnenskiy rayon
Sub-basin area
1 003,6km²
Upstream area
1 003,9km²
Discharge
16,01m³/s
Mean elev.
1 966m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 508.2 km²50.5% of basin
- 336.3 km²33.5% of basin
- 133.9 km²13.3% of basin
- 23.5 km²2.3% of basin
- 3.4 km²0.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
State Natural Zapovednik
166.25 km² overlap
CHegemskij
IUCN IVState Natural Zakaznik
134.82 km² overlap
Svaneti 1
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
2.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
742 distinct species · 1 740 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Bassin de Чегем : 28 espèces reliées par 43 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
2,8°C
Annual rain
846mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
526mm/an
PET
726mm
AET
620mm
Mean slope
19,5°
Water table
662cm
Forest
16%
Crops
14%
Urban
2%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)