HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080622660
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Khotan, Leh (Ladakh)
Sub-basin area
497,1km²
Upstream area
5 700,8km²
Discharge
9,95m³/s
Mean elev.
5 228m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 西大沟1282 km²
- Bassin de Shyok1193 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 417.6 km²84.0% of basin
- Khotan79.4 km²16.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 6 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°
-6,5°C
Annual rain
73mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
81mm/an
PET
519mm
AET
110mm
Mean slope
26,7°
Water table
756cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)