HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080525000
Bassin de Aquashicola 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 5 administrative regions : Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton, Schuylkill
Sub-basin area
723,1km²
Upstream area
2 608km²
Discharge
49,45m³/s
Mean elev.
224m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lehigh River1054 km²
- Bassin de Pohopoco Creek293 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Northampton199.6 km²27.6% of basin
- 170.8 km²23.6% of basin
- Carbon152.3 km²21.0% of basin
- Monroe116.4 km²16.1% of basin
- 84.9 km²11.7% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Cherry Valley
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
6.38 km² overlap
Private Conservation
2.86 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.94 km² overlap
Buckwha Creek Rail-Trail
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.10 km² overlap
Lehigh Gap
IUCN VWildlife Refuge
0.05 km² overlap
Trail
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 587 distinct species · 362 611 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Aquashicola Creek : 18 espèces reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 16.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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 171mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
631mm/an
PET
1 029mm
AET
833mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
342cm
Forest
64%
Crops
26%
Urban
11%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)