HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080403210
Bassin de Kennebec 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 2 administrative regions : Piscataquis, Somerset
Sub-basin area
672,7km²
Upstream area
3 878,7km²
Discharge
75,56m³/s
Mean elev.
380m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mill Brook164 km²
- Bassin de Lily Bay Brook0 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 514.6 km²76.3% of basin
- 159.6 km²23.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
911 distinct species · 13 609 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Kennebec River : 31 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.1%, 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°
3,6°C
Annual rain
1 032mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,24
Runoff
718mm/an
PET
787mm
AET
662mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
139cm
Forest
86%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)