HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080828570
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
2 227,6km²
Upstream area
447 392km²
Discharge
4 496,55m³/s
Mean elev.
1 954m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 牛栏江1299 km²
- Bassin de 金沙江371 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1139.8 km²51.2% of basin
- 1084.3 km²48.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Dashanbao
IUCN IaWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
22.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 135 distinct species · 4 171 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de 金沙江 : 7 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 20.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
12,3°C
Annual rain
944mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
472mm/an
PET
1 083mm
AET
739mm
Mean slope
25,0°
Water table
889cm
Forest
21%
Crops
21%
Urban
2%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)