HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081139630
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 3 administrative regions : Chamrajnagar, Mandya, Ramanagara
Sub-basin area
400,6km²
Upstream area
31 357,6km²
Discharge
188,96m³/s
Mean elev.
639m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shimsha692 km²
- Bassin de Kaveri238 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 207.2 km²51.9% of basin
- 114.4 km²28.7% of basin
- 77.4 km²19.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
482 distinct species · 52 929 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 : 20 espèces dont 4 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
671mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
55mm/an
PET
1 710mm
AET
564mm
Mean slope
8,1°
Water table
674cm
Forest
51%
Crops
38%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)