HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081138510
Bassin de Kaveri
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 : Mandya, Mysore
Sub-basin area
125km²
Upstream area
8 913,6km²
Discharge
93,68m³/s
Mean elev.
774m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Hemavati972 km²
- Bassin de Kāveri25 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 104.0 km²83.5% of basin
- 20.5 km²16.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
259 distinct species · 17 968 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Kaveri : 29 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.3%, 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
616mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
140mm/an
PET
1 600mm
AET
520mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
158cm
Forest
15%
Crops
69%
Urban
7%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)