HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080798490
Bassin de 金沙江
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 3 administrative regions : Chamdo, Dêqên Tibetan, Garzê Tibetan
Sub-basin area
690,1km²
Upstream area
186 122,7km²
Discharge
834,22m³/s
Mean elev.
3 623m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 金沙江1543 km²
- Bassin de 仁波河1537 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 359.4 km²52.1% of basin
- 270.5 km²39.3% of basin
- 59.3 km²8.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
5,7°C
Annual rain
590mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
204mm/an
PET
930mm
AET
504mm
Mean slope
24,9°
Water table
902cm
Forest
67%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)