Major River Basins in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) Region

The dataset provides first level river basin boundaries of ten major river basins in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region – the Amu Darya, Brahmaputra (Yarlungtsanpo), Ganges, Indus, Irrawaddy, Mekong (Lancang), Salween (Nu), Tarim (Dayan), Yangtse (Jinsha), and the Yellow River (Huanghe). In addition, it also includes boundaries of two interior river basins. The dataset has been developed from NASA’s 90m resolution Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) digital elevation model.

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Date ( Publication )
2010-06-12T16:32:00
Purpose
Base GIS data layer for use in climate, hydrological and other applications.
Status
Completed
Point of contact
  ICIMOD - ( )
Khumaltar , Lalitpur , Kathmandu , 3226 , Nepal
977-1-5275222
977-1-5003299
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • Basin
  • Basin boundary
  • River basin
Keywords ( Place )
  • HKH
  • Hindu Kush Himalaya Region
Use limitation
Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD. (2021). Major River Basins in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) Region [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.2732
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Metadata language
eng
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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Distributor
  ICIMOD - ( )
Khumaltar , Lalitpur , Kathmandu , 3226 , Nepal
977-1-5275222
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Dataset
File identifier
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Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2021-04-22T11:16:42
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
Distributor
  ICIMOD - ( )
Khumaltar , Lalitpur , Kathmandu , 3226 , Nepal
977-1-5275222
 
 

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