HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080466840
Bassin · #4080466840
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 : Jiuquan, Zhangye
Sub-basin area
158,2km²
Upstream area
158,3km²
Discharge
0,06m³/s
Mean elev.
1 386m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 151.9 km²95.9% of basin
- 6.5 km²4.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
24.15 km² overlap
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°
8,2°C
Annual rain
95mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,91
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 098mm
AET
89mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
38cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)