HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081138070
Bassin de Kāveri
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 2 administrative regions : Hassan, Mysore
Sub-basin area
529km²
Upstream area
3 055km²
Discharge
57,61m³/s
Mean elev.
821m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kaveri392 km²
- Bassin · #4081137240128 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 507.4 km²96.3% of basin
- 19.6 km²3.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
246 distinct species · 5 539 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Kāveri : 25 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.9%, 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
673mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
320mm/an
PET
1 530mm
AET
568mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
125cm
Forest
28%
Crops
81%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)