HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080419570
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 3 administrative regions : Franklin, Piscataquis, Somerset
Sub-basin area
2 037,3km²
Upstream area
8 422,3km²
Discharge
168,82m³/s
Mean elev.
330m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Dead River2259 km²
- Bassin de Kennebec River12 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1516.6 km²74.3% of basin
- Franklin518.1 km²25.4% of basin
- 7.1 km²0.3% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
S.D. Warren Co.
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
26.38 km² overlap
Mount Abraham
IUCN VEcoreserve
16.61 km² overlap
Bigelow
IUCN VEcological Reserve
6.31 km² overlap
Preserve
0.12 km² overlap
PCL
0.05 km² overlap
PCL
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 619 distinct species · 66 741 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 : 28 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.4%, 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°
4,3°C
Annual rain
1 077mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,23
Runoff
769mm/an
PET
821mm
AET
682mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
222cm
Forest
99%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)