HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080859080
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 1 administrative regions : Lijiang
Sub-basin area
75,3km²
Upstream area
235 212,2km²
Discharge
1 422,53m³/s
Mean elev.
2 275m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 黑白水河288 km²
- Bassin de 金沙江153 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 18 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°
14,0°C
Annual rain
942mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
673mm/an
PET
1 210mm
AET
770mm
Mean slope
28,2°
Water table
947cm
Forest
42%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)