Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080049680

Bassin de Mahaweli River

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 9 administrative regions : Hingurakgoda, Kantalai, Kinniya, Lankapura, Medirigiriya +4

7% lakePfafstetter: 45800181

Sub-basin area

1 064,4km²

Upstream area

10 161,4km²

Discharge

235,48m³/s

Mean elev.

30m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)

Receives from 2 basins

9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 more

13 intersecting protected areas

4 more protected areas
  • Kaudulla

    IUCN II

    National Park

    10.77 km² overlap

  • Borawewa

    IUCN Ib

    Reserved Forest

    9.84 km² overlap

  • Aluthoya

    IUCN Ib

    Reserved Forest

    3.57 km² overlap

  • Conservation Forest

    1.06 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

183 distinct species · 780 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

780 obs · 25 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 199
81–198
27–80
13–26
< 13

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 41 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Mahaweli River : 37 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
41
Interactions affichées
36
Connectance
0.044
Patrimoniales
3
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

27,6°C

Annual rain

1 603mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,09

Runoff

597mm/an

PET

1 465mm

AET

997mm

Mean slope

0,5°

Water table

29cm

Forest

36%

Crops

13%

Urban

3%

Protected

55%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)