HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080398580
Bassin · #4080398580
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 : Jiuquan
Sub-basin area
1 457,7km²
Upstream area
1 457,7km²
Discharge
0,4m³/s
Mean elev.
1 969m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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
75mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,92
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
945mm
AET
80mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
124cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)