HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080640120
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
2 017,9km²
Upstream area
38 834,4km²
Discharge
209,12m³/s
Mean elev.
4 246m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Indus2298 km²
- Bassin de Kyam Lungpa799 km²
- Bassin de Shuchulung226 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2017.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 177 distinct species · 93 595 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 3 bulles famille, 36 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 9.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 3 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°
0,4°C
Annual rain
113mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
290mm/an
PET
764mm
AET
123mm
Mean slope
21,0°
Water table
567cm
Forest
9%
Crops
0%
Urban
3%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)