HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081113970
Bassin de Varada
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 : Haveri, Shimoga, Uttara Kannada
Sub-basin area
901,9km²
Upstream area
2 863,3km²
Discharge
98,18m³/s
Mean elev.
577m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Varada1365 km²
- Bassin de Dandavati597 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 666.1 km²74.1% of basin
- 232.1 km²25.8% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
115 distinct species · 422 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Varada : 24 espèces dont 4 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 057mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
572mm/an
PET
1 639mm
AET
815mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
87cm
Forest
20%
Crops
65%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)