HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080577160
Bassin de Balkh
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 4 administrative regions : Kishindih, Sangcharak, Sholgara, Sozma Qala
Sub-basin area
905,4km²
Upstream area
10 922,6km²
Discharge
24,62m³/s
Mean elev.
1 205m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #40805840601598 km²
- Bassin de غلیم دره758 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KishindihBalkh · Afghanistan710.0 km²78.4% of basin
- 135.7 km²15.0% of basin
- SholgaraBalkh · Afghanistan54.1 km²6.0% of basin
- 5.7 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
25 distinct species · 70 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°
12,8°C
Annual rain
225mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
25mm/an
PET
1 298mm
AET
194mm
Mean slope
10,6°
Water table
715cm
Forest
0%
Crops
46%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)