Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081071550

Bassin de Salween River

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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Kawkareik, Mae Sariang

Pfafstetter: 44543005

Sub-basin area

75,9km²

Upstream area

240 341,7km²

Discharge

3 845,3m³/s

Mean elev.

415m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Salawin

    IUCN Ia

    Wildlife Sanctuary

    50.05 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

8 distinct species · 10 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

10 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 10
10–9
10–9
10–9
< 10

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

26,4°C

Annual rain

1 473mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,17

Runoff

665mm/an

PET

1 780mm

AET

1 056mm

Mean slope

19,3°

Water table

781cm

Forest

48%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

66%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)