HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080462190
Bassin de Suncook 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 : Belknap, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford
Sub-basin area
660,2km²
Upstream area
660,2km²
Discharge
14,47m³/s
Mean elev.
222m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 290.2 km²43.9% of basin
- 266.8 km²40.3% of basin
- 60.1 km²9.1% of basin
- 44.3 km²6.7% of basin
19 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
1.97 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.46 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.15 km² overlap
Perkins Tract
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.83 km² overlap
Popple Island
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.57 km² overlap
Private Conservation
0.41 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.24 km² overlap
Greenway
0.18 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.16 km² overlap
10 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Meetinghouse Pond Upper Lot
IUCN Not AssignedPond
0.14 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.08 km² overlap
Gontarz
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.07 km² overlap
Perkins Farm
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.06 km² overlap
Westen / Frohok
IUCN VConservation Area
0.05 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.05 km² overlap
Municipal
IUCN VIOpen Space
0.03 km² overlap
Piper Mountain
IUCN VConservation Area
0.02 km² overlap
Meetinghouse Pond Lower Lot
IUCN Not AssignedPond
0.02 km² overlap
Mack Mountain
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 922 distinct species · 149 597 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Suncook River : 24 espèces reliées par 90 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.5%, 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°
6,9°C
Annual rain
1 115mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
734mm/an
PET
944mm
AET
743mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
307cm
Forest
98%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)