HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080523200
Bassin de Amu Darya
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 : Halaç, Köýtendag
Sub-basin area
2 390,5km²
Upstream area
281 932,2km²
Discharge
1 874,88m³/s
Mean elev.
315m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Amu Darya302 km²
- Bassin de Amu Darya267 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1291.7 km²54.0% of basin
- 1100.1 km²46.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
16,6°C
Annual rain
197mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,86
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
1 383mm
AET
169mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
242cm
Forest
0%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)