HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080655060
Bassin de Shaqu Qu
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 3 administrative regions : Gannan Tibetan, Golog Tibetan, Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang
Sub-basin area
1 592,6km²
Upstream area
1 592,9km²
Discharge
19,8m³/s
Mean elev.
3 929m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1328.7 km²83.5% of basin
- 261.0 km²16.4% of basin
- 2.3 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
619 distinct species · 1 985 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°
0,2°C
Annual rain
700mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
390mm/an
PET
766mm
AET
592mm
Mean slope
13,9°
Water table
489cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)