HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080842720
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 : Dêqên Tibetan, Lijiang
Sub-basin area
851,1km²
Upstream area
851,3km²
Discharge
16,24m³/s
Mean elev.
3 035m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 841.6 km²99.0% of basin
- 8.2 km²1.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
298.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
324 distinct species · 1 185 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 : 23 espèces reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
9,3°C
Annual rain
946mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
596mm/an
PET
991mm
AET
751mm
Mean slope
21,7°
Water table
739cm
Forest
72%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)