HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080867890
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 4 administrative regions : Kunming, Liangshan Yi, Qujing, Zhaotong
Sub-basin area
565,6km²
Upstream area
420 597,8km²
Discharge
4 060,23m³/s
Mean elev.
1 736m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 金沙江1507 km²
- Bassin de 小江193 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 230.8 km²40.9% of basin
- 215.8 km²38.2% of basin
- 117.9 km²20.9% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 33 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°
15,5°C
Annual rain
844mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
448mm/an
PET
1 271mm
AET
706mm
Mean slope
22,1°
Water table
803cm
Forest
46%
Crops
19%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)