HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080874760
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 3 administrative regions : Chuxiong Yi, Lijiang, Panzhihua
Sub-basin area
695,6km²
Upstream area
256 127,2km²
Discharge
1 794,21m³/s
Mean elev.
1 634m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 新庄河1240 km²
- Bassin de 金沙江422 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 680.1 km²98.0% of basin
- 11.5 km²1.7% of basin
- 2.7 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
275 distinct species · 333 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 31 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
17,8°C
Annual rain
930mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
531mm/an
PET
1 381mm
AET
774mm
Mean slope
17,4°
Water table
566cm
Forest
31%
Crops
9%
Urban
14%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)