HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080374100
Bassin de Blackwater
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 : Fermoy, Kanturk - Mallow, Macroom
Sub-basin area
527,2km²
Upstream area
1 311,8km²
Discharge
39,76m³/s
Mean elev.
154m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Blackwater476 km²
- Bassin de Allow309 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 446.0 km²84.3% of basin
- 72.5 km²13.7% of basin
- 10.7 km²2.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC
IUCN Not ReportedSite of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
13.44 km² overlap
Boggeragh Mountains NHA
IUCN IVNatural Heritage Area
2.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 420 distinct species · 10 053 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Blackwater : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 12.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
9,6°C
Annual rain
1 093mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
900mm/an
PET
607mm
AET
538mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
200cm
Forest
2%
Crops
39%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)