HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080780220
Bassin de Takla Khola
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 across 2 countries : Karnali, Shigatse
Sub-basin area
294,4km²
Upstream area
294,4km²
Discharge
5,5m³/s
Mean elev.
4 941m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 281.8 km²95.9% of basin
- 12.2 km²4.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Shey-Phoksundo
IUCN IINational Park
282.54 km² overlap
Shey-Phoksundo - Buffer Zone
IUCN VINational Park - Buffer Zone
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
-1,7°C
Annual rain
665mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
598mm/an
PET
620mm
AET
541mm
Mean slope
28,5°
Water table
734cm
Forest
12%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
96%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)