HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080719880
Bassin de 大金川
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 : Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang
Sub-basin area
201,5km²
Upstream area
40 584,8km²
Discharge
535,25m³/s
Mean elev.
3 178m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 大金川河799 km²
- Bassin de 大金川359 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 201.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 9 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°
7,0°C
Annual rain
754mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
389mm/an
PET
1 021mm
AET
629mm
Mean slope
24,5°
Water table
784cm
Forest
94%
Crops
3%
Urban
11%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)