HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080803790
Bassin de Indira Gandhi Canal
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bahawalpur, Bikaner
Sub-basin area
1 890,5km²
Upstream area
1 890,5km²
Discharge
0,87m³/s
Mean elev.
159m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1656.7 km²87.8% of basin
- 231.1 km²12.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cholistan
IUCN Not ReportedPublic Wildlife Reserve (PWR)
231.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 33 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 7 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 Indira Gandhi Canal : 7 espèces reliées par 4 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 19.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,3°C
Annual rain
184mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 889mm
AET
153mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
126cm
Forest
0%
Crops
41%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)