HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080416330
Bassin de Pushaw Stream
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 : Penobscot, Piscataquis
Sub-basin area
635,5km²
Upstream area
635,5km²
Discharge
15,49m³/s
Mean elev.
76m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 536.7 km²84.3% of basin
- 100.2 km²15.7% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Hirundo
IUCN VWildlife Refuge
10.54 km² overlap
Wilderness
4.73 km² overlap
Orono Land Trust 1
IUCN VPCL
1.31 km² overlap
Town of Orono
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
1.13 km² overlap
Walden-Parke Phase 2
IUCN VPCL
0.83 km² overlap
Thibodeau
IUCN VPCL
0.64 km² overlap
Caribou Bog
IUCN VState Conservation Area
0.54 km² overlap
Hinds-Keleti
IUCN VPCL
0.52 km² overlap
Newman Hill
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.36 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Wickett
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.23 km² overlap
Orono Land Trust
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.03 km² overlap
Walden-Parke
IUCN VPreserve
0.02 km² overlap
Cota
IUCN VPCL
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 364 distinct species · 209 753 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 Pushaw Stream : 28 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
5,8°C
Annual rain
1 055mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
778mm/an
PET
864mm
AET
682mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
80cm
Forest
90%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)