World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · ind
Khangchendzonga National Park
- Area
- 1 739 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 2016
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 2016
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 132 distinct species · 8 140 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 7 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 Khangchendzonga National Park : 5 espèces reliées par 5 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 17.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology8 basins · 2 lakes · 16 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
260,4km
Lake surface here
0,49km²
Basins crossed
8
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
3 125km²
Discharge in basins
73,3m³/s
Mean precip.
991mm/an
Mean T°
4,1°C
Moisture idx
-0,09
Max snow
40%
Mean runoff
992mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
3 848m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Goma Chusub-area1 015,6 km²overlap602.78 km²35%
- Bassin de Umaram Chusub-area673,5 km²overlap517.45 km²30%
- Bassin de Rathong Chusub-area2 209 km²overlap453.28 km²26%
- Bassin de Lachen Chusub-area300,5 km²overlap105.03 km²6%
- Bassin de Chakung Glong Chusub-area328,7 km²overlap52.25 km²3%
- Bassin de Tamor Riversub-area559 km²overlap7.23 km²0%
- Bassin de Ghunsasub-area746,1 km²overlap0.87 km²0%
- Bassin de Kabelisub-area893,5 km²overlap0.10 km²0%
Lakes (2, top by area)
Rivers / streams (16, ord ≥ 4)
- Rathong Chuord 4len here35.36 km49%total73 km
- Goma Chuord 3len here32.01 km66%total48 km
- Prek Chuord 3len here29.65 km100%total30 km
- Poke Chuord 3len here25.37 km100%total25 km
- Umaram Chuord 3len here25.16 km100%total25 km
- Lungma Chuord 3len here22.67 km100%total23 km
- Lachen Chuord 5len here22.41 km15%total154 km
- Lhonak Chuord 3len here17.15 km80%total21 km
- Ringi Chuord 2len here13.11 km54%total24 km
- Gonpatang Chuord 2len here11.09 km99%total11 km
- Kauum Chuord 3len here9.79 km56%total17 km
- Passamram Chuord 2len here9.01 km100%total9 km
4 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
- 27.65186, 88.28603
- 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.