HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080470850
Bassin de Connecticut 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 : Cheshire, Franklin, Windham
Sub-basin area
202,5km²
Upstream area
16 169,6km²
Discharge
313,27m³/s
Mean elev.
252m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Black River2044 km²
- Bassin de West River1108 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 162.3 km²80.0% of basin
- 39.6 km²19.5% of basin
- Franklin0.9 km²0.5% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Wantastiquet Mountain
IUCN VNatural Area
3.56 km² overlap
Butterfield
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.99 km² overlap
Mt. Wantastiquet
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.90 km² overlap
Roaring Brook
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.41 km² overlap
Wilderness
0.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 839 distinct species · 159 211 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Connecticut River : 31 espèces reliées par 92 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.8%, 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°
7,0°C
Annual rain
1 166mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
697mm/an
PET
957mm
AET
774mm
Mean slope
6,9°
Water table
444cm
Forest
98%
Crops
2%
Urban
5%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)