HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080742230
Bassin · #4080742230
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 : Ngari
Sub-basin area
937,6km²
Upstream area
937,6km²
Discharge
5,39m³/s
Mean elev.
5 203m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 intersecting protected areas
Mapangyong Cuo
IUCN IaWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
64.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 11 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°
-3,5°C
Annual rain
509mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
214mm/an
PET
576mm
AET
433mm
Mean slope
13,4°
Water table
355cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)