HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080640110
Bassin de Zanskar
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
1 203,9km²
Upstream area
14 874km²
Discharge
330,82m³/s
Mean elev.
4 550m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zanskar2437 km²
- Bassin de Khurna River1551 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1203.6 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
322 distinct species · 2 567 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Zanskar : 19 espèces + 2 bulles famille, 24 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 11.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 2 bulles regroupent des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-1,7°C
Annual rain
117mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
328mm/an
PET
661mm
AET
132mm
Mean slope
26,3°
Water table
718cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
78%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)