HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080030240
Bassin de Gurupura
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 : Chikmagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi
Sub-basin area
855,3km²
Upstream area
855,3km²
Discharge
72,14m³/s
Mean elev.
158m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 666.6 km²78.2% of basin
- 177.4 km²20.8% of basin
- 8.0 km²0.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Western Ghats
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
101.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
763 distinct species · 110 513 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Gurupura : 25 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
4 408mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,67
Runoff
2 704mm/an
PET
1 458mm
AET
996mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
166cm
Forest
49%
Crops
36%
Urban
26%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)