HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080635220
Bassin de Kelkit Çayı
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 5 administrative regions : Koyulhisar, Mesudiye, Reşadiye, Suşehri, Zara
Sub-basin area
1 200,8km²
Upstream area
9 313,7km²
Discharge
68,4m³/s
Mean elev.
1 290m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Devehan Deresi275 km²
- Bassin de Kelkit Çayı42 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 724.5 km²60.3% of basin
- 269.2 km²22.4% of basin
- 202.3 km²16.8% of basin
- 5.7 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
169 distinct species · 540 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Kelkit Çayı : 22 espèces reliées par 65 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
8,7°C
Annual rain
554mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
287mm/an
PET
970mm
AET
473mm
Mean slope
15,1°
Water table
677cm
Forest
45%
Crops
42%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)