HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080434900

Bassin de Raquette 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 : Franklin, Hamilton

35% lakePfafstetter: 72551047

Sub-basin area

303,6km²

Upstream area

1 319,2km²

Discharge

32,19m³/s

Mean elev.

577m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Raquette River1076 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Raquette River796 km²
Bassin de Moose Creek220 km²

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Franklin
New York · United States
269.4 km²
88.5% of basin
Hamilton
New York · United States
34.8 km²
11.5% of basin

8 intersecting protected areas

High Peaks
IUCN Ib
Wilderness
86.97 km² overlap
Follensby
IUCN V
Pond
57.90 km² overlap
Saranac Lakes
IUCN Ib
Wild Forest
40.09 km² overlap
Sargent Ponds
IUCN Ib
Wild Forest
6.96 km² overlap
High Peaks
IUCN VI
State Resource Management Area
1.70 km² overlap
Horseshoe Lake
IUCN V
Wild Forest
0.23 km² overlap
Big Simonds
IUCN V
Pond
0.02 km² overlap
Saranac Lakes
IUCN VI
Lake
0.01 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 046 distinct species · 13 136 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 42 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Raquette River : 30 espèces reliées par 99 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.115

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

4,4°C

Annual rain

1 067mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,22

Runoff

749mm/an

PET

833mm

AET

699mm

Mean slope

6,5°

Water table

265cm

Forest

98%

Crops

Urban

Protected

63%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)