HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080425970
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 : Kennebec, Somerset
Sub-basin area
991,6km²
Upstream area
10 959,3km²
Discharge
231,52m³/s
Mean elev.
121m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kennebec River2037 km²
- Bassin de Sandy River1546 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 917.8 km²92.4% of basin
- 75.9 km²7.6% of basin
15 intersecting protected areas
Lake George
IUCN IIIState Park
1.43 km² overlap
Coburn Woods
IUCN VPCL
0.73 km² overlap
Canaan Bog
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.69 km² overlap
PCL
0.32 km² overlap
Malbons Woods
IUCN VPCL
0.27 km² overlap
Kennebec Pines
IUCN VPCL
0.18 km² overlap
Philbrick
IUCN VTrail
0.12 km² overlap
PCL
0.04 km² overlap
PCL
0.04 km² overlap
6 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Cedar Swamp Lot
IUCN VPCL
0.03 km² overlap
PCL
0.03 km² overlap
Sugar Bush
IUCN VPCL
0.02 km² overlap
PCL
0.02 km² overlap
Great Eddy Island
IUCN VPCL
0.01 km² overlap
Casino Hill Woods
IUCN VPCL
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 900 distinct species · 143 437 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 : 25 espèces reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.1%, 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°
5,9°C
Annual rain
1 064mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
804mm/an
PET
894mm
AET
709mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
162cm
Forest
98%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)