HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080498460
Bassin de Wallkill 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 : Orange, Ulster
Sub-basin area
644,9km²
Upstream area
1 525,3km²
Discharge
31,4m³/s
Mean elev.
146m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Wallkill River443 km²
- Bassin de Pochuck Creek268 km²
- Bassin de Rutger's Creek168 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- OrangeNew York · United States560.9 km²86.9% of basin
- UlsterNew York · United States84.8 km²13.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Shawangunk Grasslands
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
2.38 km² overlap
New York
IUCN VState Lands
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 621 distinct species · 265 780 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Wallkill River : 25 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
9,6°C
Annual rain
1 115mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
733mm/an
PET
1 016mm
AET
808mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
164cm
Forest
92%
Crops
18%
Urban
10%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)