HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080870310
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 1 administrative regions : Nujiang Lisu
Sub-basin area
525,8km²
Upstream area
85 141,9km²
Discharge
770,87m³/s
Mean elev.
2 752m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 澜沧江186 km²
- Bassin de 澜沧江90 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 524.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
30.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 16 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°
11,2°C
Annual rain
1 157mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
685mm/an
PET
1 047mm
AET
828mm
Mean slope
26,9°
Water table
1 007cm
Forest
50%
Crops
7%
Urban
4%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)