World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · npl
Chitwan National Park
- Area
- 1 180 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 1984
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 1984
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 313 distinct species · 134 108 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Chitwan National Park : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology15 basins · 0 lakes · 9 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
228,7km
Basins crossed
15
Max stream order
7
Max drainage
37 246km²
Discharge in basins
2 993,9m³/s
Mean precip.
1 801mm/an
Mean T°
23,8°C
Moisture idx
0,13
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
1 272mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
266m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de East Rapti Riversub-area419,4 km²overlap257.64 km²22%
- Bassin de Reusub-area459,2 km²overlap239.48 km²20%
- Bassin de East Rapti Riversub-area373,4 km²overlap173.21 km²15%
- Bassin de Gandaksub-area1 055,6 km²overlap156.87 km²13%
- Bassin de Burhi Gandaksub-area1 958,7 km²overlap95.06 km²8%
- Bassin de Narayanisub-area137 km²overlap72.87 km²6%
- Bassin de Doun canalsub-area1 285,7 km²overlap60.65 km²5%
- Bassin de pathar kholasub-area221,2 km²overlap39.17 km²3%
- Bassin de East Rapti Riversub-area108,8 km²overlap31.15 km²3%
6 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Narayanisub-area373,3 km²overlap29.74 km²3%
- Bassin de Narayanisub-area20,6 km²overlap13.30 km²1%
- Bassin de Narayanisub-area15,1 km²overlap7.78 km²1%
- Bassin de Girwari Kholasub-area152,5 km²overlap1.87 km²0%
- Bassin de Lothar Kholasub-area186,9 km²overlap0.89 km²0%
- Bassin de Binaisub-area338,4 km²overlap0.01 km²0%
Rivers / streams (9, ord ≥ 4)
- Narayaniord 7len here109.04 km51%total214 km
- East Rapti Riverord 6len here76.44 km37%total204 km
- Reuord 3len here36.74 km44%total83 km
- Jharahi Kholaord 7len here2.85 km25%total12 km
- pathar kholaord 3len here2.83 km8%total37 km
- Bad Kholaord 2len here0.43 km3%total17 km
- Mukunde Kholaord 2len here0.26 km4%total6 km
- Lothar Kholaord 3len here0.15 km1%total22 km
- Ghagar Kholaord 3len here≈ tangenttotal6 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 27.51607, 84.44789
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.