HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080580990
Bassin de Сулак
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 7 administrative regions : Buynakskiy rayon, Gumbetovskiy rayon, Kazbekovskiy rayon, Khasavyurtovskiy rayon, Kizilyurt +2
Sub-basin area
1 065,4km²
Upstream area
13 492,7km²
Discharge
81,75m³/s
Mean elev.
651m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Андийское Койсу1153 km²
- Bassin de Аварское Койсу494 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 448.4 km²42.0% of basin
- 272.7 km²25.5% of basin
- 212.0 km²19.9% of basin
- 63.9 km²6.0% of basin
- 38.2 km²3.6% of basin
- 22.9 km²2.1% of basin
- 9.2 km²0.9% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Melishtinskij
IUCN IVState Natural Zakaznik
197.59 km² overlap
Andrejaul`skij
IUCN IVState Natural Zakaznik
64.58 km² overlap
YAngiyurtovskij
IUCN IVState Natural Zakaznik
45.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
887 distinct species · 2 288 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Сулак : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
9,3°C
Annual rain
495mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
63mm/an
PET
848mm
AET
427mm
Mean slope
10,7°
Water table
473cm
Forest
19%
Crops
10%
Urban
4%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)