HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081140520
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, Mysore
Sub-basin area
56,4km²
Upstream area
21 739,1km²
Discharge
187,05m³/s
Mean elev.
643m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chikkahole1879 km²
- Bassin de Kaveri84 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 31.2 km²55.5% of basin
- 19.6 km²35.0% of basin
- 5.3 km²9.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
221 distinct species · 4 764 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 : 18 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 43 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.2%, 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
712mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
58mm/an
PET
1 687mm
AET
601mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
102cm
Forest
54%
Crops
52%
Urban
28%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)