HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080843800
Bassin de Narayani
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 : Lumbini, Narayani, Pashchim Champaran
Sub-basin area
137km²
Upstream area
3 149,7km²
Discharge
142,27m³/s
Mean elev.
178m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Reu459 km²
- Bassin de East Rapti River373 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 132.8 km²97.1% of basin
- 2.1 km²1.5% of basin
- 1.8 km²1.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Chitwan National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
72.87 km² overlap
Chitwan
IUCN IINational Park
72.33 km² overlap
Chitwan - Buffer Zone
IUCN VINational Park - Buffer Zone
28.49 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
588 distinct species · 5 927 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Narayani : 36 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
24,3°C
Annual rain
2 059mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,23
Runoff
1 531mm/an
PET
1 575mm
AET
994mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
65cm
Forest
25%
Crops
37%
Urban
10%
Protected
75%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)