HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080117240
Bassin de Kárášjohka
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 : Karasjok
Sub-basin area
584,1km²
Upstream area
2 231,3km²
Discharge
26,28m³/s
Mean elev.
314m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bávttajohka509 km²
- Bassin de Juovvajohka361 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Oahcesaisuolu
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
683 distinct species · 2 562 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Bassin de Kárášjohka : 31 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-3,0°C
Annual rain
457mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
348mm/an
PET
386mm
AET
316mm
Mean slope
8,2°
Water table
311cm
Forest
78%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)