HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080842110
Bassin de Lachen Chu
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 1 administrative regions : North Sikkim
Sub-basin area
300,5km²
Upstream area
2 019,7km²
Discharge
39,86m³/s
Mean elev.
3 645m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Goma Chu1016 km²
- Bassin de Lachen Chu704 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 300.0 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Khangchendzonga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
105.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 102 distinct species · 14 468 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Lachen Chu : 17 espèces reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
4,9°C
Annual rain
801mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
696mm/an
PET
873mm
AET
586mm
Mean slope
30,6°
Water table
1 098cm
Forest
71%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)