HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080890670
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
263km²
Upstream area
263km²
Discharge
3,74m³/s
Mean elev.
1 760m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 194.0 km²73.9% of basin
- 68.5 km²26.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 114 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°
17,1°C
Annual rain
913mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
448mm/an
PET
1 350mm
AET
769mm
Mean slope
11,6°
Water table
416cm
Forest
3%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)