HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080367880
Bassin · #4080367880
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 1 administrative regions : Ysyk-Köl (lake)
Sub-basin area
659,6km²
Upstream area
659,7km²
Discharge
1,3m³/s
Mean elev.
1 601m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Ysyk-Köl (lake)Ysyk-Köl · Kyrgyzstan660.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Isyk-Kul State Reserve with the Lake Isyk-Kul
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
660.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 18 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
258mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
74mm/an
PET
884mm
AET
234mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
2cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)