HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081039160
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 3 administrative regions : Anugul, Cuttack, Nayagarh
Sub-basin area
612,7km²
Upstream area
128 980,7km²
Discharge
2 350,12m³/s
Mean elev.
149m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Burtanga1027 km²
- Bassin de Mahanadi858 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 418.1 km²68.4% of basin
- 113.0 km²18.5% of basin
- 79.9 km²13.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Satkosia Gorge
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
107.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
205 distinct species · 1 767 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 : 29 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
1 384mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
709mm/an
PET
1 624mm
AET
937mm
Mean slope
5,9°
Water table
283cm
Forest
45%
Crops
39%
Urban
6%
Protected
52%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)