HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080502100
Bassin de Shetucket 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 1 administrative regions : New London
Sub-basin area
18,4km²
Upstream area
3 262,8km²
Discharge
80,42m³/s
Mean elev.
55m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shetucket River1334 km²
- Bassin de Quinebaug River458 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 18.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Private Conservation
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
914 distinct species · 12 570 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Shetucket River : 29 espèces reliées par 83 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.1%, 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°
9,7°C
Annual rain
1 231mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,21
Runoff
791mm/an
PET
975mm
AET
793mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
276cm
Forest
100%
Crops
3%
Urban
62%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)