HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080838220
Bassin de Sun Kosi
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 across 2 countries : Bagmati, Janakpur, Shigatse
Sub-basin area
644,2km²
Upstream area
2 629,4km²
Discharge
101,16m³/s
Mean elev.
2 335m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de 孙科西河287 km²
- Bassin de 普玛布曲109 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 601.0 km²93.4% of basin
- 38.7 km²6.0% of basin
- 3.5 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gauri-Shankar
IUCN VIConservation Area
331.23 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
566 distinct species · 1 807 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Sun Kosi : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 53 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
12,5°C
Annual rain
1 937mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 306mm/an
PET
1 089mm
AET
836mm
Mean slope
27,2°
Water table
885cm
Forest
74%
Crops
9%
Urban
5%
Protected
57%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)