HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080756600
Bassin de Mandakini
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 5 administrative regions : Chamoli, Garhwal, Rudraprayag, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarkashi
Sub-basin area
1 662,5km²
Upstream area
1 662,5km²
Discharge
47,34m³/s
Mean elev.
2 724m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1165.1 km²70.2% of basin
- 408.8 km²24.6% of basin
- Chamoli75.6 km²4.6% of basin
- 9.8 km²0.6% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nanda Devi
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
13.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
762 distinct species · 55 595 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 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 Mandakini : 7 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 21.8%, 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°
10,2°C
Annual rain
1 342mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,28
Runoff
844mm/an
PET
963mm
AET
827mm
Mean slope
27,3°
Water table
889cm
Forest
46%
Crops
9%
Urban
1%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)