HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080875770
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
421,8km²
Upstream area
254 191,1km²
Discharge
1 751,93m³/s
Mean elev.
1 691m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 万马河1075 km²
- Bassin de 金沙江634 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 278.9 km²66.2% of basin
- 125.9 km²29.9% of basin
- 16.2 km²3.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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°
17,6°C
Annual rain
917mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
521mm/an
PET
1 371mm
AET
765mm
Mean slope
19,3°
Water table
622cm
Forest
33%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)