HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080815100
Bassin de 什娥曲
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Laya, Lunana, Shannan, Shigatse
Sub-basin area
692,1km²
Upstream area
692,1km²
Discharge
12,81m³/s
Mean elev.
5 451m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 658.0 km²95.2% of basin
- 32.1 km²4.6% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Jigme Dorji National Park
IUCN IINational Park
0.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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
258mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
453mm/an
PET
600mm
AET
244mm
Mean slope
16,2°
Water table
621cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)