HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080617210
Bassin de 黄河
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 : Golog Tibetan, Gyêgu Tibetan, Haixi Mongol and Tibetan
Sub-basin area
540,7km²
Upstream area
540,9km²
Discharge
0,84m³/s
Mean elev.
4 478m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 489.1 km²90.5% of basin
- 51.6 km²9.5% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Zhaling Lake
IUCN IaWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
75.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
-4,0°C
Annual rain
341mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
51mm/an
PET
575mm
AET
309mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
118cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)