HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080880260
Bassin de Ghaghara
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 : Azamgarh, Gorakhpur, Sant Kabir Nagar
Sub-basin area
426,6km²
Upstream area
5 802,9km²
Discharge
90,72m³/s
Mean elev.
81m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #4080872770908 km²
- Bassin de Manorama river163 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Gorakhpur248.1 km²58.3% of basin
- 177.0 km²41.6% of basin
- Azamgarh0.8 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 31 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
1 107mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
428mm/an
PET
1 655mm
AET
803mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
7cm
Forest
0%
Crops
95%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)