HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080604820
Bassin de Shyok
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 across 4 countries : Kashgar, Leh (Ladakh), Northern Areas
Sub-basin area
840,7km²
Upstream area
840,7km²
Discharge
1,33m³/s
Mean elev.
5 567m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 592.6 km²70.5% of basin
- 191.0 km²22.7% of basin
- Kashgar56.5 km²6.7% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 28 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°
-9,2°C
Annual rain
73mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
44mm/an
PET
419mm
AET
119mm
Mean slope
16,0°
Water table
473cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)