HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080826450
Bassin de 美姑河
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 2 administrative regions : Liangshan Yi, Zhaotong
Sub-basin area
59,4km²
Upstream area
450 710,4km²
Discharge
4 556,62m³/s
Mean elev.
1 220m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 金沙江2228 km²
- Bassin de 美姑河53 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 36.4 km²61.5% of basin
- 22.9 km²38.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
14,9°C
Annual rain
895mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
497mm/an
PET
1 171mm
AET
752mm
Mean slope
31,1°
Water table
1 102cm
Forest
50%
Crops
17%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)