HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080733720
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
280,4km²
Upstream area
165 041km²
Discharge
665,68m³/s
Mean elev.
3 912m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 藏曲4645 km²
- Bassin de 金沙江441 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 154.8 km²55.3% of basin
- 125.3 km²44.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
4,1°C
Annual rain
546mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
326mm/an
PET
937mm
AET
469mm
Mean slope
27,9°
Water table
868cm
Forest
63%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)