HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080697920
Bassin de Zap Suyu
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 : Başkale, Gürpınar, Merkez, Yüksekova
Sub-basin area
1 315,4km²
Upstream area
5 410,6km²
Discharge
26,5m³/s
Mean elev.
2 313m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nehil1201 km²
- Bassin de Çığlı Suyu26 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 917.8 km²69.7% of basin
- 194.5 km²14.8% of basin
- 166.8 km²12.7% of basin
- 37.0 km²2.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
618 distinct species · 3 054 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 Zap Suyu : 15 espèces reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 19.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
6,9°C
Annual rain
665mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
294mm/an
PET
903mm
AET
511mm
Mean slope
23,0°
Water table
788cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)