HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080456490
Bassin de West Branch Sacandaga 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 : Fulton, Hamilton, Warren
Sub-basin area
842,2km²
Upstream area
842,2km²
Discharge
22,75m³/s
Mean elev.
601m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- HamiltonNew York · United States836.7 km²99.2% of basin
- FultonNew York · United States7.0 km²0.8% of basin
- WarrenNew York · United States0.0 km²0.0% of basin
14 intersecting protected areas
Silver Lake
IUCN IbWilderness
336.76 km² overlap
Ferris Lake
IUCN VWild Forest
89.15 km² overlap
Jessup River
IUCN IbWild Forest
85.38 km² overlap
West Canada Lake
IUCN IbWilderness
64.58 km² overlap
Siamese Ponds
IUCN IbWilderness
46.44 km² overlap
Piseco
IUCN VLake
10.52 km² overlap
Shaker Mountain
IUCN VWild Forest
5.89 km² overlap
Moffitt Beach Campground
IUCN VCampground
1.56 km² overlap
Silever Lakes
IUCN IbWilderness
0.33 km² overlap
5 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Point Comfort Campground
IUCN VCampground
0.30 km² overlap
Campground
0.27 km² overlap
New York
IUCN VState Lands
0.18 km² overlap
Poplar Point Campground
IUCN VCampground
0.13 km² overlap
Wilcox Lake
IUCN IbWild Forest
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 278 distinct species · 43 059 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 West Branch Sacandaga River : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
4,8°C
Annual rain
1 274mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,35
Runoff
847mm/an
PET
833mm
AET
735mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
310cm
Forest
86%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
74%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)