HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080703990
Bassin de Ceyhan
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 : Ceyhan, Kadirli, Merkez, Sumbas, Toprakkale
Sub-basin area
496km²
Upstream area
16 277,7km²
Discharge
201,1m³/s
Mean elev.
87m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Akçasu Çayı698 km²
- Bassin de Ceyhan263 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 328.6 km²66.2% of basin
- 153.5 km²30.9% of basin
- 5.4 km²1.1% of basin
- 4.8 km²1.0% of basin
- 4.0 km²0.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
467 distinct species · 6 198 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Ceyhan : 28 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
18,6°C
Annual rain
795mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
417mm/an
PET
1 317mm
AET
669mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
91cm
Forest
4%
Crops
51%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)