HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080641190
Bassin de Kelkit Çayı
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 4 administrative regions : Alucra, Refahiye, Çamoluk, Şiran
Sub-basin area
249,9km²
Upstream area
3 046,4km²
Discharge
17,07m³/s
Mean elev.
1 588m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Şiran Çayı579 km²
- Bassin de Kelkit Çayı491 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 127.9 km²51.1% of basin
- 63.6 km²25.4% of basin
- 52.2 km²20.9% of basin
- 6.5 km²2.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 8 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°
8,5°C
Annual rain
534mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
289mm/an
PET
1 000mm
AET
456mm
Mean slope
13,8°
Water table
696cm
Forest
9%
Crops
35%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)