HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081070300
Bassin de Nam Xouang
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 : Khamkheuth, Pakkading, Viengthong
Sub-basin area
284,5km²
Upstream area
4 275,8km²
Discharge
129,76m³/s
Mean elev.
602m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de ນຳ້ງໍ925 km²
- Bassin de ນຳ້ເມືອງ275 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 248.0 km²87.4% of basin
- 32.5 km²11.4% of basin
- 3.2 km²1.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nam Kading
IUCN VINational Protected Area
107.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
100 distinct species · 167 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 5 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 Nam Xouang : 4 espèces reliées par 3 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 30.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
2 381mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,38
Runoff
1 093mm/an
PET
1 467mm
AET
1 025mm
Mean slope
13,3°
Water table
451cm
Forest
65%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
38%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)