HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080541670
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 : Kaldar, Khulm
Sub-basin area
248,9km²
Upstream area
248,9km²
Discharge
0,07m³/s
Mean elev.
312m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KaldarBalkh · Afghanistan248.6 km²99.8% of basin
- KhulmBalkh · Afghanistan0.4 km²0.2% of basin
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°
17,2°C
Annual rain
188mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 484mm
AET
159mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
103cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)