HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081142330
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 : Chamrajnagar, Dharmapuri
Sub-basin area
236,3km²
Upstream area
39 455,4km²
Discharge
198,57m³/s
Mean elev.
500m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kaveri2110 km²
- Bassin de Chinnar1573 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 156.0 km²66.3% of basin
- Dharmapuri79.4 km²33.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
400 distinct species · 16 798 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 : 22 espèces dont 4 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
777mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
74mm/an
PET
1 755mm
AET
655mm
Mean slope
12,5°
Water table
776cm
Forest
81%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
55%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)