HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4080856930
Bassin de Maulung Khola
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 : Janakpur, Sagarmatha
Sub-basin area
699,7km²
Upstream area
12 286,7km²
Discharge
482m³/s
Mean elev.
1 552m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Likhu Khola1054 km²
- Bassin de Sun Kosi351 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 545.6 km²78.1% of basin
- 152.9 km²21.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
285 distinct species · 608 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Maulung Khola : 32 espèces reliées par 43 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
16,6°C
Annual rain
1 543mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
1 103mm/an
PET
1 226mm
AET
871mm
Mean slope
25,7°
Water table
894cm
Forest
48%
Crops
21%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)