HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080646720
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 2 administrative regions : Kargil, Leh (Ladakh)
Sub-basin area
2 436,6km²
Upstream area
12 120,1km²
Discharge
289,12m³/s
Mean elev.
4 523m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Stod2038 km²
- Bassin de Tsarap Lingti Chu181 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1265.9 km²52.0% of basin
- 1170.0 km²48.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
219 distinct species · 455 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 3 bulles famille, 25 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 9.9%, 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°
-1,9°C
Annual rain
156mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,75
Runoff
455mm/an
PET
619mm
AET
164mm
Mean slope
28,3°
Water table
753cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)