HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080913690
Bassin de Namkawng Chaung
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 1 administrative regions : Myitkyina
Sub-basin area
290km²
Upstream area
7 469,1km²
Discharge
706,42m³/s
Mean elev.
359m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de နန့်ရင်းချောင်း2163 km²
- Bassin de Namkawng Chaung626 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Sanctuary
4.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 22 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
2 265mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
2 795mm/an
PET
1 444mm
AET
1 060mm
Mean slope
7,5°
Water table
224cm
Forest
33%
Crops
8%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)