HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080612700
Bassin de 扎日尕那曲
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 2 administrative regions : Gyêgu Tibetan, Haixi Mongol and Tibetan
Sub-basin area
1 060,9km²
Upstream area
1 060,9km²
Discharge
0,89m³/s
Mean elev.
4 752m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1051.1 km²99.1% of basin
- 9.8 km²0.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Qinghai Hoh Xil
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
686.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 4 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°
-5,7°C
Annual rain
244mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
27mm/an
PET
514mm
AET
237mm
Mean slope
5,9°
Water table
185cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
94%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)