HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080843700
Bassin de East Rapti 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 1 administrative regions : Narayani
Sub-basin area
108,8km²
Upstream area
1 214,1km²
Discharge
48,53m³/s
Mean elev.
432m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de East Rapti River671 km²
- Bassin de East Rapti River434 km²
5 intersecting protected areas
Parsa
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
55.84 km² overlap
Chitwan National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
31.15 km² overlap
Chitwan
IUCN IINational Park
23.33 km² overlap
Chitwan - Buffer Zone
IUCN VINational Park - Buffer Zone
9.89 km² overlap
Parsa - Buffer Zone
IUCN VIWildlife Reserve - Buffer Zone
5.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
291 distinct species · 1 494 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 East Rapti River : 31 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
1 932mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,22
Runoff
1 343mm/an
PET
1 512mm
AET
981mm
Mean slope
6,6°
Water table
261cm
Forest
83%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
87%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)