HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080847380
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
371,4km²
Upstream area
432 058,9km²
Discharge
4 264,67m³/s
Mean elev.
1 793m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 金沙江1491 km²
- Bassin de 西溪河616 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 244.8 km²66.0% of basin
- 126.0 km²34.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
14,3°C
Annual rain
903mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
498mm/an
PET
1 197mm
AET
738mm
Mean slope
27,4°
Water table
872cm
Forest
25%
Crops
21%
Urban
0%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)