HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080486710
Bassin de 대동강
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 6 administrative regions : Haichang, Kangdong, P'yŏngsŏng, Pyongyang, Sŏngch'ŏn +1
Sub-basin area
619km²
Upstream area
8 155,2km²
Discharge
151,6m³/s
Mean elev.
123m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 비류강2068 km²
- Bassin de 대동강318 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 260.8 km²42.1% of basin
- 253.0 km²40.8% of basin
- 66.4 km²10.7% of basin
- 20.2 km²3.3% of basin
- 15.7 km²2.5% of basin
- 3.4 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
37 distinct species · 73 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°
9,2°C
Annual rain
1 037mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
467mm/an
PET
980mm
AET
810mm
Mean slope
8,6°
Water table
289cm
Forest
25%
Crops
63%
Urban
36%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)