Hydrological Basins New Release

Ten new datasets about hydrological basins have been published on the Agro-informatics Platform. The data provides global information on basins, sub-basins and hydrological.

This release is the updated version of FAO's Hydrological Basins of the World dataset. The original version can still be accessed under the Legacy Datasets section of the platform at this link: https://data.apps.fao.org/?lang=en&share=f-92e09b11-e3d1-4e2f-9988-a0c40c40f862 .

The new published data comes from the SDG 6 Basin Map produced by the Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG6 .

The ‘SDG 6 Major Basin’ map is a geo-spatial data layer that includes approximately 200 river basins. The map is intended for data collection, presentation and analysis at the level of the whole world, major regions and larger countries (where too much detail would be overwhelming).

The ‘SDG 6 Sub-Basin’ map is a geo-spatial data layer intended for data collection, presentation and analysis at the level of smaller regions and countries (where a higher level of detail is desired).

The ‘SDG6 Foundation Basin Units’ map is a geo-spatial data layer with spatial information derived from HydroBASIN level 12 (https://www.hydrosheds.org/products/hydrobasins). Each of these small hydrological units (approximately 1 million basins) is named according to the ‘SDG 6 Major Basin’ and ‘SDG 6 Sub-Basin’ classification, with the sub-basins nested within the major basins.

More info about the data at:  https://data.apps.fao.org/?lang=en&share=f-f0b2e832-2175-40fb-a310-9d4d5c2c505c