HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080665570
Bassin de آراز چایی - Araz
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 across 2 countries : Babək, Khoy, Maku, Marand
Sub-basin area
201,3km²
Upstream area
9 287km²
Discharge
15,91m³/s
Mean elev.
1 290m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de کانال1896 km²
- Bassin de آجی چای472 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 150.8 km²74.8% of basin
- 43.0 km²21.4% of basin
- 7.5 km²3.7% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Marakan
IUCN VProtected Area
201.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 79 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°
11,1°C
Annual rain
304mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
49mm/an
PET
1 136mm
AET
264mm
Mean slope
17,1°
Water table
722cm
Forest
0%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)