HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080490160
Bassin de Big Sandy 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 1 administrative regions : Sweetwater
Sub-basin area
7km²
Upstream area
3 514,8km²
Discharge
13,39m³/s
Mean elev.
1 994m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Big Sandy River365 km²
- Bassin de Big Sandy River171 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 7.0 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 50 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°
3,4°C
Annual rain
201mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
67mm/an
PET
1 011mm
AET
180mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
102cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)