HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080641330
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 2 administrative regions : Kelkit, Merkez
Sub-basin area
243,1km²
Upstream area
1 596,6km²
Discharge
7,71m³/s
Mean elev.
1 694m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Balahor Deresi404 km²
- Bassin de Tarla Deresi56 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 224.0 km²92.0% of basin
- 19.4 km²8.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
336 distinct species · 425 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 : 15 espèces reliées par 14 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
7,7°C
Annual rain
505mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
226mm/an
PET
989mm
AET
433mm
Mean slope
9,9°
Water table
611cm
Forest
12%
Crops
4%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)