HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080722760
Bassin de 金沙江
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 : Chamdo, Garzê Tibetan, Gyêgu Tibetan
Sub-basin area
11 363,2km²
Upstream area
151 116km²
Discharge
546,87m³/s
Mean elev.
4 319m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 通天河2874 km²
- Bassin de 巴塘河2485 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 7079.1 km²62.3% of basin
- 3339.3 km²29.4% of basin
- 937.2 km²8.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 145 distinct species · 4 454 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 金沙江 : 8 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 20.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
0,7°C
Annual rain
542mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
383mm/an
PET
785mm
AET
466mm
Mean slope
24,3°
Water table
776cm
Forest
19%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
30%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)