HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080878380
Bassin de 湘江
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 : Hengyang, Yongzhou
Sub-basin area
238,8km²
Upstream area
25 463km²
Discharge
666,44m³/s
Mean elev.
190m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 湘江2185 km²
- Bassin de 祁水1680 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 235.1 km²98.6% of basin
- 3.3 km²1.4% 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°
17,9°C
Annual rain
1 396mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
728mm/an
PET
1 146mm
AET
997mm
Mean slope
7,8°
Water table
280cm
Forest
30%
Crops
29%
Urban
25%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)