HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080811320
Bassin de 佳曲
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 across 2 countries : Lunana, Shannan, Shigatse
Sub-basin area
1 032,5km²
Upstream area
1 032,5km²
Discharge
21,99m³/s
Mean elev.
5 471m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1023.3 km²99.3% of basin
- 7.2 km²0.7% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
National Park
0.25 km² overlap
Jigme Dorji National Park
IUCN IINational Park
0.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 9 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°
-3,2°C
Annual rain
250mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
458mm/an
PET
601mm
AET
237mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
354cm
Forest
2%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)