HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080786140
Bassin de 湘江
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 1 administrative regions : Yueyang
Sub-basin area
77,7km²
Upstream area
256 722km²
Discharge
6 381,67m³/s
Mean elev.
28m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 新墙河2431 km²
- Bassin de 湘江211 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Dong dongting hu
IUCN IaWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
77.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 12 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°
17,2°C
Annual rain
1 312mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,21
Runoff
658mm/an
PET
1 038mm
AET
945mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
24cm
Forest
16%
Crops
44%
Urban
13%
Protected
51%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)