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

Updated Date: 4/22/2021 11:16:42 AM

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.

Major River Basins in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) Region
Schema iso19139
Purpose Base GIS data layer for use in climate, hydrological and other applications.
Descriptive Keyword Basin, Basin boundary, River basin (theme) HKH, Hindu Kush Himalaya Region (place)
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Language eng
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Date 2021-04-22T11:16:42
Standard Name North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
Contact
Name Email metadata@icimod.org
Organization Name ICIMOD Voice 977-1-5275222
Position name Address Khumaltar Lalitpur Kathmandu 3226 Nepal
Role distributor
Identification Info
Title Major River Basins in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) Region
Date 2010-06-12T16:32:00
Date Type publication
Abstract 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.
Purpose Base GIS data layer for use in climate, hydrological and other applications.
Status completed
Charset utf8
Topic Category geoscientificInformation
Spatial Representation Type vector
Point Of Contact
Individual Name Email metadata@icimod.org
Organization Name ICIMOD Voice 977-1-5275222
Position name Address Khumaltar Lalitpur Kathmandu 3226 Nepal
Role pointOfContact
Geographic Extent
Geographic Extent East 122.644539 Geographic Extent West 58.358308
Geographic Extent North 44.184896 Geographic Extent South 8.553756
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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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Reference System Information
Code WGS 1984
Data Quality Info
Hierarchy level dataset
Distributor Info
Email metadata@icimod.org Organization Name ICIMOD
Voice 977-1-5275222 Position name
Address Khumaltar Lalitpur Kathmandu 3226 Nepal Role distributor