HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080643050
Bassin de Aras / Արաքս
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 : Merkez, Tuzluca
Sub-basin area
41,9km²
Upstream area
20 648,7km²
Discharge
52,83m³/s
Mean elev.
994m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Acıçay Deresi546 km²
- Bassin de Aras / Արաքս143 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 19.8 km²47.2% of basin
- 4.9 km²11.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
"Vanand" area
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
7.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 79 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Aras / Արաքս : 22 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
10,9°C
Annual rain
320mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
53mm/an
PET
1 149mm
AET
277mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
516cm
Forest
0%
Crops
21%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)