HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080802600
Bassin de Bharbun 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
573,1km²
Upstream area
1 051,7km²
Discharge
13,57m³/s
Mean elev.
4 971m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chharka Tulsi Khola251 km²
- Bassin de Thansan Khola228 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 571.8 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Shey-Phoksundo - Buffer Zone
IUCN VINational Park - Buffer Zone
0.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 22 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°
-1,4°C
Annual rain
542mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
608mm/an
PET
617mm
AET
462mm
Mean slope
24,2°
Water table
791cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)