National Park · npl
Makalu-Barun
- Area
- 1 388 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1991
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1991
- Managing authority
- Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC)
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
854 distinct species · 2 457 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 4 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 Makalu-Barun : 4 espèces + 0 bulles famille, 3 interactions GloBI documentées sur 1 type (connectance 50.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology8 basins · 1 lakes · 13 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
194,7km
Lake surface here
0,25km²
Basins crossed
8
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
27 054km²
Discharge in basins
226,3m³/s
Mean precip.
1 268mm/an
Mean T°
5,2°C
Moisture idx
0,11
Max snow
42%
Mean runoff
1 368mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
3 712m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Barun Riversub-area452,8 km²overlap448.03 km²32%
- Bassin de अरुण नदीsub-area1 127 km²overlap396.31 km²29%
- Bassin de Hunku Drangkasub-area605,7 km²overlap310.09 km²22%
- Bassin de Lunsun Kholasub-area356,1 km²overlap119.29 km²9%
- Bassin de Hinku Drangkasub-area841,4 km²overlap98.40 km²7%
- Bassin de 甘玛藏布sub-area678,4 km²overlap10.08 km²1%
- Bassin de Dudh Koshisub-area726,6 km²overlap3.11 km²0%
- Bassin de Medokchheje Kholasub-area543,5 km²overlap2.44 km²0%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (13, ord ≥ 4)
- Hunku Drangkaord 3len here66.22 km55%total121 km
- Barun Riverord 3len here45.98 km100%total46 km
- Isuwa Kholaord 2len here29.71 km73%total40 km
- Sankhuwa Kholaord 2len here15.22 km100%total15 km
- बरुण नदीord 3len here14.00 km100%total14 km
- Hinku Drangkaord 3len here13.90 km23%total61 km
- Koluwa Kholaord 2len here5.45 km59%total9 km
- Khalamiwa Kholaord 1len here2.33 km60%total4 km
- Lunsun Kholaord 6len here0.86 km3%total33 km
- Muddi Kholaord 3len here0.52 km10%total5 km
- Hiwa Kholaord 3len here0.28 km4%total7 km
- अरुण नदीord 6len here0.09 km0%total223 km
1 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
- 27.76046, 87.08879
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.