HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080559540
Bassin de 克其克孜苏
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 3 administrative regions : Bayin'gholin Mongol, Gyêgu Tibetan, Haixi Mongol and Tibetan
Sub-basin area
2 387,4km²
Upstream area
2 387,4km²
Discharge
1,49m³/s
Mean elev.
4 849m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2341.3 km²98.0% of basin
- 43.1 km²1.8% of basin
- 3.6 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Qinghai Hoh Xil
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
19.89 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
-6,9°C
Annual rain
155mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
22mm/an
PET
492mm
AET
173mm
Mean slope
9,2°
Water table
256cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)