HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080890830
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
226,8km²
Upstream area
397 853,2km²
Discharge
3 723,36m³/s
Mean elev.
1 753m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 勐果河1728 km²
- Bassin de 金沙江279 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 226.2 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
17,0°C
Annual rain
885mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
432mm/an
PET
1 346mm
AET
732mm
Mean slope
18,1°
Water table
603cm
Forest
17%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)