HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080823870
Bassin de 卡尔河
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 3 countries : Mechi, North Sikkim, Shigatse
Sub-basin area
500,1km²
Upstream area
500,2km²
Discharge
18,78m³/s
Mean elev.
5 618m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 494.2 km²99.0% of basin
- 3.7 km²0.7% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kanchanjunga
IUCN VIConservation Area
1.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 42 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°
-4,7°C
Annual rain
309mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
1 152mm/an
PET
541mm
AET
282mm
Mean slope
22,2°
Water table
849cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)