HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080750000
Bassin · #4080750000
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 : Lhasa, Nagchu, Shigatse
Sub-basin area
1 880,9km²
Upstream area
1 881,6km²
Discharge
6,53m³/s
Mean elev.
5 276m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1817.7 km²96.7% of basin
- 43.1 km²2.3% of basin
- 18.0 km²1.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 17 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°
-2,9°C
Annual rain
240mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
120mm/an
PET
627mm
AET
229mm
Mean slope
10,7°
Water table
443cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)