HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080051550
Bassin de Mendha
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 4 administrative regions : Ajmer, Jaipur, Nagaur, Sikar
Sub-basin area
5 860,4km²
Upstream area
5 860,4km²
Discharge
9,34m³/s
Mean elev.
435m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2081.7 km²35.6% of basin
- 1530.1 km²26.2% of basin
- 1159.8 km²19.8% of basin
- 1078.8 km²18.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sambhar Lake
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
196.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
429 distinct species · 29 634 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Mendha : 26 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
476mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
34mm/an
PET
1 747mm
AET
401mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
134cm
Forest
1%
Crops
79%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)