HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080894110
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, Liangshan Yi, Panzhihua
Sub-basin area
1 195,4km²
Upstream area
386 332,8km²
Discharge
3 564,34m³/s
Mean elev.
1 540m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 雅砻江216 km²
- Bassin de 金沙江126 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 808.5 km²67.8% of basin
- 288.8 km²24.2% of basin
- 95.9 km²8.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 23 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°
18,3°C
Annual rain
904mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
489mm/an
PET
1 406mm
AET
755mm
Mean slope
15,8°
Water table
560cm
Forest
20%
Crops
8%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)