HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080721170
Bassin de 象泉河
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 4 administrative regions across 3 countries : Chamoli, Ngari, Pithoragarh
Sub-basin area
3 110,1km²
Upstream area
17 220km²
Discharge
217,85m³/s
Mean elev.
4 627m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 象泉河628 km²
- Bassin de Topu Chu598 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 3094.1 km²99.6% of basin
- Chamoli6.0 km²0.2% of basin
- 5.6 km²0.2% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nanda Devi
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
15.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 26 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°
-0,6°C
Annual rain
632mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
887mm/an
PET
683mm
AET
525mm
Mean slope
11,5°
Water table
356cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)