HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080419780
Bassin de Sandy 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 4 administrative regions : Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Somerset
Sub-basin area
1 545,5km²
Upstream area
1 545,5km²
Discharge
39,72m³/s
Mean elev.
290m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Franklin1325.6 km²85.6% of basin
- 186.4 km²12.0% of basin
- 36.5 km²2.4% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Oberton
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
23.38 km² overlap
Mount Blue
IUCN VState Park
3.78 km² overlap
Appalachian
IUCN VTrail
1.44 km² overlap
Mount Abraham
IUCN VEcoreserve
0.45 km² overlap
Bonney Woods
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.37 km² overlap
Kennebec Highlands
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.24 km² overlap
Mcgurdy Stream
IUCN VPreserve
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 228 distinct species · 82 285 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Sandy River : 26 espèces reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.9%, 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°
5,0°C
Annual rain
1 106mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,23
Runoff
814mm/an
PET
850mm
AET
697mm
Mean slope
5,6°
Water table
224cm
Forest
99%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)