HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080795390
Bassin de هلمند رود
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 : Ghorak, Kajaki, Musa Qala, Sangin
Sub-basin area
524,4km²
Upstream area
48 394,6km²
Discharge
205,5m³/s
Mean elev.
1 041m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #2080792110224 km²
- Bassin de هلمند رود121 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 350.4 km²66.9% of basin
- 112.5 km²21.5% of basin
- 50.9 km²9.7% of basin
- 10.2 km²1.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
17,8°C
Annual rain
162mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
17mm/an
PET
1 703mm
AET
136mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
534cm
Forest
0%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)