HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080728670
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 2 administrative regions : Chamdo, Garzê Tibetan
Sub-basin area
441km²
Upstream area
160 115,8km²
Discharge
616,57m³/s
Mean elev.
3 925m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 欧曲2887 km²
- Bassin de 金沙江198 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 243.0 km²55.1% of basin
- 197.6 km²44.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 20 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°
3,9°C
Annual rain
554mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
352mm/an
PET
925mm
AET
476mm
Mean slope
27,7°
Water table
923cm
Forest
70%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)