HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081040610
Bassin de แม่น้ำโขง / ແມ່ນ້ຳຂອງ
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 across 3 countries : Chiang Saen, Nam You, Tarchilaik
Sub-basin area
84,9km²
Upstream area
190 628,6km²
Discharge
2 692,09m³/s
Mean elev.
394m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de น้ำแม่สาย2821 km²
- Bassin de မဲခောင္မ္ရစ္ / ແມ່ນ້ຳຂອງ559 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 42.9 km²50.7% of basin
- 39.7 km²46.9% of basin
- 2.1 km²2.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
877 distinct species · 28 312 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de แม่น้ำโขง / ແມ່ນ້ຳຂອງ : 33 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 644mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
431mm/an
PET
1 702mm
AET
1 088mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
160cm
Forest
1%
Crops
24%
Urban
17%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)