HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080029580
Bassin de Kodayar
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 3 administrative regions : Kanniyakumari, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirunelveli
Sub-basin area
760,4km²
Upstream area
760,4km²
Discharge
12,31m³/s
Mean elev.
354m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 687.1 km²90.7% of basin
- Tirunelveli67.1 km²8.9% of basin
- 3.1 km²0.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Western Ghats
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
9.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 346 distinct species · 23 765 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Kodayar : 20 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
1 313mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
468mm/an
PET
1 383mm
AET
1 015mm
Mean slope
10,2°
Water table
445cm
Forest
90%
Crops
36%
Urban
6%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)