HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080370580
Bassin de Aroostook 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 : Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis
Sub-basin area
1 672,9km²
Upstream area
1 673,1km²
Discharge
34,14m³/s
Mean elev.
294m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 784.6 km²46.8% of basin
- 606.5 km²36.2% of basin
- 286.1 km²17.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Big Reed
IUCN VForest Reserve
19.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
666 distinct species · 11 693 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Aroostook River : 33 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
3,3°C
Annual rain
986mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
671mm/an
PET
793mm
AET
647mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
131cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)