HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080642740
Bassin de Aras
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 3 administrative regions : Eleşkirt, Horasan, Sarıkamış
Sub-basin area
338,2km²
Upstream area
338,3km²
Discharge
1,21m³/s
Mean elev.
2 040m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 277.7 km²82.0% of basin
- 38.5 km²11.4% of basin
- 22.3 km²6.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 12 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°
4,5°C
Annual rain
553mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
113mm/an
PET
880mm
AET
473mm
Mean slope
12,8°
Water table
470cm
Forest
2%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)