HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #3080690560
Bassin de Менжикен
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Batshireet, Krasnochikoyskiy rayon, Kyrinskiy rayon
Sub-basin area
1 006,7km²
Upstream area
1 006,8km²
Discharge
4,78m³/s
Mean elev.
1 443m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 900.6 km²89.2% of basin
- 106.3 km²10.5% of basin
- 3.0 km²0.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Khan Khentii
IUCN IbStrictly Protected Area
91.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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°
-4,3°C
Annual rain
446mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
154mm/an
PET
644mm
AET
389mm
Mean slope
10,5°
Water table
273cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)