HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081077730
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, Sop Moei
Sub-basin area
20,4km²
Upstream area
242 490,9km²
Discharge
3 925,45m³/s
Mean elev.
335m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Salween River970 km²
- Bassin · #4081077330487 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Sop Moei17.1 km²83.7% of basin
- 3.3 km²16.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 24 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
1 865mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
1 183mm/an
PET
1 753mm
AET
1 101mm
Mean slope
14,9°
Water table
450cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)