HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080520390
Bassin de Lehigh 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 5 administrative regions : Carbon, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Schuylkill
Sub-basin area
1 054,2km²
Upstream area
1 591,9km²
Discharge
29,31m³/s
Mean elev.
449m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tobyhanna Creek298 km²
- Bassin de Lehigh River240 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Carbon656.5 km²62.2% of basin
- 318.8 km²30.2% of basin
- 61.5 km²5.8% of basin
- Monroe17.4 km²1.6% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.1% of basin
12 intersecting protected areas
Hickory Run
IUCN VState Park
57.24 km² overlap
Lehigh Gorge
IUCN VState Park
20.79 km² overlap
Bear Creek
IUCN VPreserve
14.79 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
1.29 km² overlap
Preserve
1.02 km² overlap
Nblt Easement Property
IUCN VEasement
0.47 km² overlap
Long
IUCN VPond
0.30 km² overlap
Bear Creek Lake View
IUCN VLake
0.30 km² overlap
Wild Creek
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.26 km² overlap
3 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Long
IUCN VPond
0.20 km² overlap
Hickory Run Boulder Field
IUCN IIINatural Area
0.08 km² overlap
Unknown
IUCN VPark
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 087 distinct species · 182 233 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Lehigh River : 31 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 83 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.4%, 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°
7,9°C
Annual rain
1 181mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
587mm/an
PET
941mm
AET
808mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
356cm
Forest
97%
Crops
3%
Urban
2%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)