HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080420390
Bassin de Penobscot 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 : Hancock, Penobscot
Sub-basin area
91,4km²
Upstream area
20 828,8km²
Discharge
437,82m³/s
Mean elev.
59m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kenduskeag Stream486 km²
- Bassin de Penobscot River156 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 77.1 km²84.2% of basin
- Hancock14.5 km²15.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Pond
0.82 km² overlap
Unity College Land (Bog)
IUCN VCollege
0.43 km² overlap
Maine Audubon Society
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
946 distinct species · 133 179 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 Penobscot River : 28 espèces reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.3%, 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°
6,5°C
Annual rain
1 091mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,21
Runoff
806mm/an
PET
857mm
AET
682mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
179cm
Forest
72%
Crops
4%
Urban
20%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)