HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #3080487880
Bassin de Чая
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 1 administrative regions : Kirenskiy rayon
Sub-basin area
1 153km²
Upstream area
8 468km²
Discharge
92,07m³/s
Mean elev.
740m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Налимда1138 km²
- Bassin de Чая485 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Kirenskiy rayonIrkutsk · Russia1158.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
CHajskij
IUCN IVState Natural Zakaznik
153.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 11 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°
-6,2°C
Annual rain
428mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
341mm/an
PET
547mm
AET
364mm
Mean slope
10,2°
Water table
252cm
Forest
71%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)