HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080135660
Bassin de Акша
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 : Akshinskiy rayon, Dul'durginskiy rayon, Uletovskiy rayon
Sub-basin area
1 845,6km²
Upstream area
1 845,6km²
Discharge
4,51m³/s
Mean elev.
1 086m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1323.6 km²71.5% of basin
- 485.4 km²26.2% of basin
- 43.1 km²2.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Akshinskij
IUCN IVState Natural Zakaznik
658.76 km² overlap
Alhanaj
IUCN IINational Park
9.49 km² overlap
Dzhilinskij
IUCN IVState Natural Zakaznik
3.99 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
67 distinct species · 75 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°
-1,5°C
Annual rain
353mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
77mm/an
PET
741mm
AET
316mm
Mean slope
8,7°
Water table
232cm
Forest
62%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)