HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #3080399340
Bassin de Большая Кантайка
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 : Bodaybinskiy rayon, Lenskiy rayon
Sub-basin area
1 715,7km²
Upstream area
1 715,7km²
Discharge
13,92m³/s
Mean elev.
402m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1695.7 km²98.3% of basin
- Bodaybinskiy rayonIrkutsk · Russia29.8 km²1.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 26 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°
-8,0°C
Annual rain
392mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
256mm/an
PET
542mm
AET
339mm
Mean slope
7,0°
Water table
120cm
Forest
92%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)