HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080863620
Bassin de 澜沧江
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, Nujiang Lisu
Sub-basin area
89,7km²
Upstream area
84 430km²
Discharge
752,46m³/s
Mean elev.
2 806m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 通甸河1356 km²
- Bassin de 澜沧江866 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 89.5 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
46.89 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
10,8°C
Annual rain
1 138mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
715mm/an
PET
1 032mm
AET
822mm
Mean slope
27,4°
Water table
1 042cm
Forest
33%
Crops
6%
Urban
12%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)