HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081037620
Bassin de Mahanadi
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 4 administrative regions : Anugul, Bauda, Cuttack, Nayagarh
Sub-basin area
858,2km²
Upstream area
127 341km²
Discharge
2 321,11m³/s
Mean elev.
269m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bara Jhor273 km²
- Bassin de Mahanadi7 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 542.6 km²63.4% of basin
- 214.3 km²25.0% of basin
- 55.5 km²6.5% of basin
- 43.4 km²5.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Satkosia Gorge
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
661.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
317 distinct species · 24 044 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Mahanadi : 25 espèces dont 4 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.1%, 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 375mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
667mm/an
PET
1 627mm
AET
906mm
Mean slope
10,2°
Water table
497cm
Forest
89%
Crops
21%
Urban
3%
Protected
39%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)