HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080865290
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
683,7km²
Upstream area
212 883,4km²
Discharge
1 073,94m³/s
Mean elev.
2 816m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 金庄河938 km²
- Bassin de 金沙江336 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 381.0 km²55.8% of basin
- 301.5 km²44.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
258.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
277 distinct species · 1 356 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 : 29 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.4%, 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°
10,8°C
Annual rain
967mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
574mm/an
PET
1 065mm
AET
758mm
Mean slope
23,6°
Water table
770cm
Forest
76%
Crops
5%
Urban
7%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)