HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080499330
Bassin de Cussewago Creek
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 : Crawford, Erie
Sub-basin area
243,7km²
Upstream area
243,8km²
Discharge
3,91m³/s
Mean elev.
384m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Crawford208.3 km²85.4% of basin
- Erie35.7 km²14.6% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Helen B. Katz
IUCN VNatural Area
1.12 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.54 km² overlap
Sugarcreek Station Riparian Area
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.38 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Chester, PA
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
894 distinct species · 16 804 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 Cussewago Creek : 31 espèces reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.2%, 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°
8,3°C
Annual rain
1 103mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
502mm/an
PET
940mm
AET
775mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
204cm
Forest
95%
Crops
19%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)