HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080541910
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 6 administrative regions across 3 countries : Jarqo'rg'on, Kaldar, Khulm, Nosir Khusrav, Shahrituz +1
Sub-basin area
586,9km²
Upstream area
209 167,1km²
Discharge
2 041,82m³/s
Mean elev.
384m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Amu Darya234 km²
- Bassin de Amu Darya131 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KaldarBalkh · Afghanistan199.9 km²34.0% of basin
- 187.0 km²31.8% of basin
- 99.6 km²17.0% of basin
- KhulmBalkh · Afghanistan60.5 km²10.3% of basin
- 36.4 km²6.2% of basin
- 3.8 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
69 distinct species · 118 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Amu Darya : 17 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
16,8°C
Annual rain
216mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 459mm
AET
183mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
366cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)