HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080552650
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 7 administrative regions : Aybak, Baghlani Jadid, Char Dara, Hazrati Sultan, Khulm +2
Sub-basin area
2 674km²
Upstream area
2 674,1km²
Discharge
0,81m³/s
Mean elev.
651m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 719.2 km²26.9% of basin
- Char DaraKunduz · Afghanistan680.9 km²25.5% of basin
- KhulmBalkh · Afghanistan645.5 km²24.1% of basin
- Qala-I-ZalKunduz · Afghanistan455.7 km²17.0% of basin
- 163.1 km²6.1% of basin
- 7.2 km²0.3% of basin
- 3.2 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 42 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°
15,4°C
Annual rain
283mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 392mm
AET
242mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
528cm
Forest
0%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)