HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080452260
Bassin · #4080452260
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 : Haixi Mongol and Tibetan, Jiuquan
Sub-basin area
885,7km²
Upstream area
885,9km²
Discharge
0,08m³/s
Mean elev.
2 044m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 879.7 km²99.2% of basin
- 6.8 km²0.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gansu Dunhuang Xihu Wetlands
IUCN IbWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
2.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
5,8°C
Annual rain
27mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,97
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
1 071mm
AET
37mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
243cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)