HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080028550
Bassin de Palar
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 : Kancheepuram
Sub-basin area
210,5km²
Upstream area
17 994,1km²
Discharge
81,11m³/s
Mean elev.
16m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Maduranthakam Kalkulam Canal1122 km²
- Bassin de Palar886 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 209.6 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
249 distinct species · 2 281 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 Palar : 27 espèces dont 4 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
28,4°C
Annual rain
1 172mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
437mm/an
PET
1 687mm
AET
893mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
44cm
Forest
3%
Crops
48%
Urban
25%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)