HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081135940
Bassin de Kumaradhara
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 : Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu
Sub-basin area
798,8km²
Upstream area
798,8km²
Discharge
43,41m³/s
Mean elev.
433m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 500.1 km²62.8% of basin
- 175.7 km²22.1% of basin
- 119.9 km²15.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Western Ghats
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
105.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
741 distinct species · 9 565 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 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 Kumaradhara : 15 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 13 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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
3 716mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,60
Runoff
1 700mm/an
PET
1 476mm
AET
1 012mm
Mean slope
10,5°
Water table
380cm
Forest
100%
Crops
20%
Urban
1%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)