HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #3080509100
Bassin de Киренга
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 : Kazachinsko-Lenskiy rayon, Kirenskiy rayon
Sub-basin area
242,6km²
Upstream area
45 205,7km²
Discharge
517,91m³/s
Mean elev.
508m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Моголь1958 km²
- Bassin de Киренга11 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Kirenskiy rayonIrkutsk · Russia216.2 km²88.6% of basin
- Kazachinsko-Lenskiy rayonIrkutsk · Russia27.7 km²11.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 6 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°
-4,8°C
Annual rain
405mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
267mm/an
PET
595mm
AET
351mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
167cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)