HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081133510
Bassin de Arkavati
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 : Bangalore, Bangalore Rural, Chikballapura
Sub-basin area
973,8km²
Upstream area
973,8km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
895m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 579.2 km²59.7% of basin
- 379.2 km²39.1% of basin
- 11.7 km²1.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 405 distinct species · 422 731 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 Arkavati : 26 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 46 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.7%, 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
757mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
64mm/an
PET
1 678mm
AET
639mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
220cm
Forest
37%
Crops
58%
Urban
29%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)