HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080334700
Bassin · #4080334700
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 : Gurvan tes, Shinejinst
Sub-basin area
1 501,4km²
Upstream area
1 501,4km²
Discharge
0,08m³/s
Mean elev.
1 166m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1486.8 km²98.9% of basin
- 17.2 km²1.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Great Gobi
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1338.43 km² overlap
Gobiin ikh /A/
IUCN IbStrictly Protected Area
1338.43 km² overlap
Tost, Toson bumbiin nuruu
IUCN IVNature Reserve
5.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
5,9°C
Annual rain
53mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
2mm/an
PET
1 016mm
AET
58mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
303cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
90%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)