HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080043170
Bassin de Wando River
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 : Berkeley, Charleston, Georgetown
Sub-basin area
1 216,4km²
Upstream area
1 216,4km²
Discharge
0,11m³/s
Mean elev.
6m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 956.6 km²78.7% of basin
- 156.5 km²12.9% of basin
- 39.8 km²3.3% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Francis Marion
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
194.04 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
174.50 km² overlap
Cape Romain
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
142.32 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
119.25 km² overlap
Santee Coastal Reserve
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
95.83 km² overlap
Little Wambaw Swamp
IUCN IbWilderness
20.10 km² overlap
Wambaw Swamp
IUCN IbWilderness
19.24 km² overlap
Capers Island
IUCN IIIHeritage Preserve
8.59 km² overlap
Wambaw Creek
IUCN IbWilderness
6.89 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Private Conservation Land
4.18 km² overlap
Francis Marion
IUCN VNational Forest
2.17 km² overlap
Us-Sc-7-8
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.11 km² overlap
Santee-Delta
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.70 km² overlap
Us-Sc-7-11
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.66 km² overlap
Us-Sc-6-3
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.39 km² overlap
Us-Sc-6-13
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.80 km² overlap
Us-Sc-6-12
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.64 km² overlap
Oakland Plantation
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.54 km² overlap
Us-Sc-6-7
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.49 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
0.36 km² overlap
Beach Dunes
0.31 km² overlap
Cape Romain
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.30 km² overlap
Little Wambaw Swamp
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.25 km² overlap
Marsh View
IUCN Not AssignedTrail
0.24 km² overlap
Cape Romain
IUCN VNational Wildlife Refuge
0.23 km² overlap
Beach Dunes and Groins
0.07 km² overlap
Us-Sc-4-7
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.06 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201420A
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.04 km² overlap
Us-Sc-6-2
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Snee Farm
IUCN VIHeritage Preserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 533 distinct species · 951 064 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Wando River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
18,2°C
Annual rain
1 290mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
392mm/an
PET
1 288mm
AET
1 069mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
16cm
Forest
57%
Crops
2%
Urban
7%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)