HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080437280
Bassin · #4080437280
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
553km²
Upstream area
33 602,2km²
Discharge
12,35m³/s
Mean elev.
1 240m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #40804360202899 km²
- Bassin · #4080435840479 km²
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°
8,9°C
Annual rain
38mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,97
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
1 190mm
AET
38mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
220cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)