HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080043260
Bassin de Cooper 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, Dorchester
Sub-basin area
1 862,3km²
Upstream area
1 862,4km²
Discharge
20,5m³/s
Mean elev.
16m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1792.8 km²96.3% of basin
- 66.6 km²3.6% of basin
- Dorchester1.8 km²0.1% of basin
12 intersecting protected areas
Bonneau Ferry
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
43.31 km² overlap
Moultrie Hunt Unit
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
35.09 km² overlap
Us-Sc-7-6
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
21.38 km² overlap
Wadboo North
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
12.98 km² overlap
Us-Sc-7-16
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
12.53 km² overlap
Hatchery
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
9.19 km² overlap
Salt Point Plantation
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
4.10 km² overlap
Us-Sc-7-2
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
3.41 km² overlap
Us-Sc-7-7
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.08 km² overlap
3 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Us-Sc-7-5
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.54 km² overlap
Hell Hole Bay
IUCN IbWilderness
0.45 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
0.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 665 distinct species · 364 837 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Cooper River : 25 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.0%, 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°
18,0°C
Annual rain
1 261mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
385mm/an
PET
1 340mm
AET
1 062mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
17cm
Forest
71%
Crops
2%
Urban
9%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)