HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080821040
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 2 administrative regions : Liangshan Yi, Zhaotong
Sub-basin area
951,5km²
Upstream area
452 362,4km²
Discharge
4 642,82m³/s
Mean elev.
1 581m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 西苏河701 km²
- Bassin de 美姑河59 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 484.0 km²50.9% of basin
- 466.1 km²49.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 739 distinct species · 15 469 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°
12,7°C
Annual rain
956mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
491mm/an
PET
1 061mm
AET
771mm
Mean slope
22,2°
Water table
756cm
Forest
70%
Crops
15%
Urban
5%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)