HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080836460
Bassin de 湄江
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 3 administrative regions : Changsha, Loudi, Yiyang
Sub-basin area
758,5km²
Upstream area
758,5km²
Discharge
18,17m³/s
Mean elev.
407m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 649.2 km²85.7% of basin
- 81.5 km²10.8% of basin
- 26.7 km²3.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 9 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°
16,0°C
Annual rain
1 491mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
776mm/an
PET
1 061mm
AET
1 005mm
Mean slope
11,7°
Water table
409cm
Forest
53%
Crops
30%
Urban
18%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)