HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080610090
Bassin de Sakardara
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 : Mandol, Nuristan, Wama
Sub-basin area
390,8km²
Upstream area
390,8km²
Discharge
4,08m³/s
Mean elev.
3 339m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MandolNuristan · Afghanistan377.2 km²96.5% of basin
- WamaNuristan · Afghanistan9.6 km²2.5% of basin
- NuristanNuristan · Afghanistan3.9 km²1.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nuristan
IUCN IINational Park and Wildlife Reserve
202.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 21 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°
3,0°C
Annual rain
984mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
329mm/an
PET
720mm
AET
499mm
Mean slope
27,5°
Water table
828cm
Forest
43%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)