HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080888080
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 2 administrative regions : Dali Bai, Lijiang
Sub-basin area
1 054,7km²
Upstream area
245 820,3km²
Discharge
1 614,44m³/s
Mean elev.
2 252m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 金沙江2311 km²
- Bassin de 达旦河1919 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 617.9 km²58.7% of basin
- 434.8 km²41.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 11 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°
14,3°C
Annual rain
978mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
571mm/an
PET
1 212mm
AET
781mm
Mean slope
22,2°
Water table
740cm
Forest
50%
Crops
9%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)