HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080718760
Bassin de Karasu 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 : Merkez, Reyhanlı
Sub-basin area
86,9km²
Upstream area
6 227,2km²
Discharge
61,9m³/s
Mean elev.
220m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Karasu Çayı2869 km²
- Bassin de Afrin Çayı35 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 83.9 km²96.6% of basin
- 3.0 km²3.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
164 distinct species · 340 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Karasu Çayı : 37 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
18,1°C
Annual rain
984mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
432mm/an
PET
1 164mm
AET
665mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
172cm
Forest
15%
Crops
39%
Urban
47%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)