HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080516390
Bassin de Susquehanna 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 : Columbia, Luzerne, Schuylkill
Sub-basin area
1 724,9km²
Upstream area
27 224,3km²
Discharge
442,02m³/s
Mean elev.
344m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lackawanna River874 km²
- Bassin de Susquehanna River636 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1528.2 km²88.5% of basin
- Columbia195.7 km²11.3% of basin
- 3.3 km²0.2% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Nescopeck
IUCN IIIState Park
14.62 km² overlap
Frances Slocum
IUCN IIIState Park
3.97 km² overlap
Seven Tubbs
IUCN VNatural Area
2.21 km² overlap
Bald Mountain
IUCN VPreserve
1.67 km² overlap
Nblt Easement Property
IUCN VEasement
0.51 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
0.34 km² overlap
Pinchot
IUCN IbState Wilderness
0.06 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.04 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 034 distinct species · 748 249 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Susquehanna River : 17 espèces reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 15.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
8,5°C
Annual rain
1 060mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
536mm/an
PET
968mm
AET
786mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
353cm
Forest
86%
Crops
10%
Urban
12%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)