HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080488740
Bassin · #4080488740
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
240km²
Upstream area
240,2km²
Discharge
0,06m³/s
Mean elev.
3 721m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 237.3 km²98.8% of basin
- 2.9 km²1.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gansu Yanchiwan Wetlands
IUCN IbWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.98 km² overlap
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°
-2,7°C
Annual rain
140mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,77
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
649mm
AET
151mm
Mean slope
9,4°
Water table
249cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
97%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)