HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080881690
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, Dali Bai, Lijiang
Sub-basin area
851km²
Upstream area
250 704,6km²
Discharge
1 690,33m³/s
Mean elev.
2 309m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 金沙江1055 km²
- Bassin de 渔泡江305 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 548.8 km²64.6% of basin
- 300.6 km²35.4% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
14,0°C
Annual rain
976mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
560mm/an
PET
1 208mm
AET
769mm
Mean slope
27,1°
Water table
891cm
Forest
56%
Crops
8%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)