HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080716210
Bassin de Sutlej
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 across 2 countries : Kinnaur, Lahul & Spiti, Ngari
Sub-basin area
1 820,2km²
Upstream area
42 948,5km²
Discharge
639,36m³/s
Mean elev.
4 449m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 象泉河2661 km²
- Bassin de 司丕提河595 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1779.6 km²97.8% of basin
- 38.2 km²2.1% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
215 distinct species · 715 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Sutlej : 22 espèces reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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
635mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
464mm/an
PET
670mm
AET
518mm
Mean slope
28,9°
Water table
868cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)