HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080638740
Bassin de Akhurian
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 2 administrative regions : Digor, Merkez
Sub-basin area
1 113,6km²
Upstream area
8 897,5km²
Discharge
21,56m³/s
Mean elev.
1 638m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kars Çayı422 km²
- Bassin de Ախուրյան154 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 453.9 km²40.7% of basin
- 283.6 km²25.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
"Akhuryan reservoir" area
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
50.15 km² overlap
"Vanand" area
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
10.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
233 distinct species · 1 873 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Akhurian : 18 espèces reliées par 65 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 16.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
6,2°C
Annual rain
453mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
53mm/an
PET
944mm
AET
392mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
368cm
Forest
0%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)