HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080816980
Bassin de 沅江
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 2 administrative regions : Huaihua, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao
Sub-basin area
173,6km²
Upstream area
59 815km²
Discharge
1 159,58m³/s
Mean elev.
263m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 荔溪344 km²
- Bassin de 沅江96 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 164.5 km²94.9% of basin
- 8.9 km²5.1% 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°
16,9°C
Annual rain
1 422mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
658mm/an
PET
1 164mm
AET
1 078mm
Mean slope
9,1°
Water table
301cm
Forest
82%
Crops
15%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)