HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080566900
Bassin de Shimshāl River
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 1 administrative regions : Northern Areas
Sub-basin area
2 748,5km²
Upstream area
2 748,5km²
Discharge
5,37m³/s
Mean elev.
4 845m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2749.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Khunjerab National Park
IUCN IINational Park (NP)
1461.94 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
235 distinct species · 481 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Shimshāl River : 23 espèces reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
-6,1°C
Annual rain
109mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
64mm/an
PET
490mm
AET
135mm
Mean slope
28,8°
Water table
807cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
53%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)