HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080636350
Bassin de Indus
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 1 administrative regions : Leh (Ladakh)
Sub-basin area
957,4km²
Upstream area
54 665,7km²
Discharge
562,44m³/s
Mean elev.
4 244m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Indus2018 km²
- Bassin de Zanskar1204 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 957.2 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
430 distinct species · 8 338 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Indus : 19 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-0,2°C
Annual rain
105mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,86
Runoff
205mm/an
PET
728mm
AET
120mm
Mean slope
23,5°
Water table
700cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)