HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081046340
Bassin de ນຳ້ຊໍ
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Kỳ Sơn, Quế Phong, Tương Dương, Xamtay
Sub-basin area
954,8km²
Upstream area
955,2km²
Discharge
19,63m³/s
Mean elev.
999m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 948.9 km²99.7% of basin
- 2.2 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Western Nghe An
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
7.53 km² overlap
Pu Hoat
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
2.48 km² overlap
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°
19,7°C
Annual rain
1 374mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
645mm/an
PET
1 301mm
AET
914mm
Mean slope
15,4°
Water table
585cm
Forest
3%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)