HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080320830
Bassin · #4080320830
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 : Altai, Tsogt
Sub-basin area
1 472,5km²
Upstream area
1 472,7km²
Discharge
0,57m³/s
Mean elev.
1 247m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 971.5 km²65.8% of basin
- 504.0 km²34.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Great Gobi
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1475.49 km² overlap
Gobiin ikh /A/
IUCN IbStrictly Protected Area
1475.49 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
5,5°C
Annual rain
55mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
997mm
AET
61mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
196cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)