HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080742490
Bassin de ས་མུའུ་ཆུ
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
71km²
Upstream area
3 836,3km²
Discharge
34,83m³/s
Mean elev.
5 000m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 拉木弄曲2012 km²
- Bassin de 扎钦曲1754 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Mapangyong Cuo
IUCN IaWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
33.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
-2,2°C
Annual rain
642mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
306mm/an
PET
610mm
AET
510mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
222cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)