HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080889930
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 : Chuxiong Yi, Liangshan Yi
Sub-basin area
36,5km²
Upstream area
398 152,7km²
Discharge
3 727,7m³/s
Mean elev.
1 506m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 金沙江263 km²
- Bassin de 金沙江227 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 30.8 km²84.3% of basin
- 5.7 km²15.7% 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°
18,5°C
Annual rain
839mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
447mm/an
PET
1 413mm
AET
706mm
Mean slope
18,9°
Water table
633cm
Forest
16%
Crops
9%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)