HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #4081147070
Bassin de Bhavani
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 : Coimbatore, Palakkad, The Nilgiris
Sub-basin area
296,3km²
Upstream area
296,3km²
Discharge
3,31m³/s
Mean elev.
1 811m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 266.1 km²90.2% of basin
- Coimbatore23.3 km²7.9% of basin
- 5.8 km²2.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Western Ghats
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
2.99 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
745 distinct species · 37 649 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 Bhavani : 21 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
16,8°C
Annual rain
1 764mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,26
Runoff
566mm/an
PET
1 261mm
AET
996mm
Mean slope
14,8°
Water table
550cm
Forest
98%
Crops
45%
Urban
15%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)