HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080809480
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 : Liangshan Yi, Yibin, Zhaotong
Sub-basin area
853,6km²
Upstream area
453 659,5km²
Discharge
4 723,74m³/s
Mean elev.
1 275m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 金沙江952 km²
- Bassin de 木杆河444 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 416.1 km²48.8% of basin
- 328.3 km²38.5% of basin
- 108.0 km²12.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 28 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°
13,6°C
Annual rain
982mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
514mm/an
PET
1 070mm
AET
819mm
Mean slope
23,6°
Water table
832cm
Forest
77%
Crops
27%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)