HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080880440
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 : Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh, Gorakhpur
Sub-basin area
164,5km²
Upstream area
89 922,9km²
Discharge
2 426,2m³/s
Mean elev.
78m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ghaghara687 km²
- Bassin · #4080880250331 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Azamgarh103.6 km²63.1% of basin
- Gorakhpur41.2 km²25.1% of basin
- 19.4 km²11.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
1 104mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
398mm/an
PET
1 674mm
AET
797mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
9cm
Forest
0%
Crops
87%
Urban
18%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)