Conservation Area · npl
Kanchanjunga
- Area
- 2 037 km²
- IUCN cat.
- VI
- Year
- 1998
Overview
- Designation
- Conservation Area
- IUCN category
- VI · Aire protégée avec utilisation durable
Conservation + utilisation durable des ressources
- Established
- 1998
- Managing authority
- Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC)
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 254 distinct species · 3 357 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 3 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 Kanchanjunga : 3 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 0 bulles famille, 2 interactions GloBI documentées sur 1 type (connectance 66.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology10 basins · 4 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
348,6km
Lake surface here
1,22km²
Basins crossed
10
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
25 474km²
Discharge in basins
171,3m³/s
Mean precip.
794mm/an
Mean T°
1,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,12
Max snow
40%
Mean runoff
1 413mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
4 391m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Tamor Riversub-area772,9 km²overlap756.19 km²37%
- Bassin de Ghunsasub-area746,1 km²overlap739.66 km²36%
- Bassin de Tamor Riversub-area559 km²overlap339.71 km²17%
- Bassin de Kabelisub-area893,5 km²overlap188.30 km²9%
- Bassin de Goma Chusub-area1 015,6 km²overlap6.40 km²0%
- Bassin de Rathong Chusub-area2 209 km²overlap4.03 km²0%
- Bassin de 卡尔河sub-area500,1 km²overlap1.39 km²0%
- Bassin de Mewasub-area580,1 km²overlap0.77 km²0%
- Bassin de 那塘曲sub-area978,9 km²overlap0.60 km²0%
1 more basinssorted by overlap
Lakes (4, top by area)
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Tamor Riverord 5len here76.12 km58%total131 km
- Ghunsaord 4len here43.56 km100%total44 km
- Yangma Kholaord 4len here41.49 km100%total42 km
- Ghunsa Kholaord 4len here38.19 km100%total38 km
- Kabeliord 4len here28.11 km40%total69 km
- Simbuwa Kholaord 3len here26.78 km100%total27 km
- Pabuk Kholaord 4len here26.30 km100%total26 km
- Amji Kholaord 3len here16.97 km100%total17 km
- Kabellord 2len here12.46 km100%total12 km
- Lami Kholaord 1len here9.79 km100%total10 km
- Hadi Kholaord 3len here7.98 km43%total19 km
- Chherchen Kholaord 2len here7.94 km100%total8 km
2 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 27.68582, 87.92969
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.