HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080054250
Bassin de Barrow
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 : Callan-Thomastown, New Ross, Piltown
Sub-basin area
104,5km²
Upstream area
5 494,6km²
Discharge
110,39m³/s
Mean elev.
65m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nore2474 km²
- Bassin de Barrow664 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 54.7 km²52.1% of basin
- 38.4 km²36.6% of basin
- 11.9 km²11.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
River Barrow and River Nore SAC
IUCN Not ReportedSite of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
9.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
663 distinct species · 3 075 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Barrow : 22 espèces reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 14.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
9,7°C
Annual rain
995mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
706mm/an
PET
641mm
AET
542mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
262cm
Forest
0%
Crops
41%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)