HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080688700
Bassin de آجی چای
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 6 administrative regions : Ahar, Bostan Abad, Heris, Marand, Shabestar +1
Sub-basin area
2 174km²
Upstream area
10 834,6km²
Discharge
34,06m³/s
Mean elev.
1 580m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de لیقوان چای - مهران رود497 km²
- Bassin de آجی چای16 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1426.3 km²65.6% of basin
- 496.0 km²22.8% of basin
- 213.4 km²9.8% of basin
- 35.1 km²1.6% of basin
- 2.5 km²0.1% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Lake Urmia [or Orumiyeh]
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
153.54 km² overlap
Lake Urmia [or Orumiyeh]
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
153.54 km² overlap
Urumieh lake
IUCN IINational Park
148.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
291 distinct species · 1 010 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 آجی چای : 36 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 95 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 8.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
10,4°C
Annual rain
334mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
19mm/an
PET
1 105mm
AET
290mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
297cm
Forest
0%
Crops
26%
Urban
12%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)