HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080604810
Bassin de Nuristan
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 : Hisa-I-Awali Panjsher, Kuran Wa Munjan, Mandol, Wama
Sub-basin area
1 101km²
Upstream area
1 101,1km²
Discharge
11,58m³/s
Mean elev.
3 971m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MandolNuristan · Afghanistan1044.0 km²94.8% of basin
- 28.8 km²2.6% of basin
- 25.3 km²2.3% of basin
- WamaNuristan · Afghanistan3.0 km²0.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nuristan
IUCN IINational Park and Wildlife Reserve
219.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
27 distinct species · 32 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°
-1,4°C
Annual rain
1 054mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,46
Runoff
332mm/an
PET
559mm
AET
419mm
Mean slope
27,7°
Water table
822cm
Forest
3%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)