HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080475470

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

4% lakePfafstetter: 73120073

Sub-basin area

182,7km²

Upstream area

17 441,4km²

Discharge

336,98m³/s

Mean elev.

179m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Fall River120 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Ashuelot River1089 km²
Bassin de Connecticut River203 km²

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Franklin
Massachusetts · United States
142.9 km²
78.1% of basin
Cheshire
New Hampshire · United States
26.4 km²
14.4% of basin
Windham
Vermont · United States
13.7 km²
7.5% of basin

16 intersecting protected areas

Satan's Kingdom WCE
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
2.16 km² overlap
Old Wendell Road CR
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.76 km² overlap
Copeland CR
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.70 km² overlap
Aldenbrook Meadows
IUCN Not Assigned
Sanctuary
0.56 km² overlap
Mountain Road CR
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.35 km² overlap
Roaring Brook
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.30 km² overlap
Town Of Vernon
IUCN Not Assigned
Easement
0.23 km² overlap
Connecticut River Greenway
IUCN Not Assigned
State Park
0.17 km² overlap
Warwick
IUCN Not Assigned
State Forest
0.15 km² overlap

7 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Richardson CR
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.15 km² overlap
Ben Hale East Woodlot CR
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.11 km² overlap
Gill Station CR
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.07 km² overlap
Hatchery
IUCN VI
Pond
0.06 km² overlap
Northfield Mount Hermon School CR
IUCN Not Assigned
School
0.05 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Franklin, MA
IUCN V
Reserve Program
0.01 km² overlap
Stacy Mountain
IUCN V
Conservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap

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

Species present

2 340 distinct species · 103 817 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 37 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 Connecticut River : 25 espèces reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.137

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°

7,4°C

Annual rain

1 130mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,13

Runoff

684mm/an

PET

979mm

AET

776mm

Mean slope

5,5°

Water table

492cm

Forest

99%

Crops

Urban

Protected

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