HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080538340
Bassin de Conewago 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 4 administrative regions : Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York
Sub-basin area
228,5km²
Upstream area
64 582,8km²
Discharge
1 069,42m³/s
Mean elev.
150m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Swatara Creek1465 km²
- Bassin de Yellow Breeches Creek750 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 78.9 km²34.5% of basin
- York57.1 km²25.0% of basin
- 47.4 km²20.7% of basin
- Lancaster45.3 km²19.8% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Central PA Conservancy
IUCN VEasement
0.62 km² overlap
Elizabethtown Area
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.38 km² overlap
Private Conservation
0.14 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 312 distinct species · 187 379 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Conewago Creek : 22 espèces reliées par 74 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.2%, 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°
11,1°C
Annual rain
1 024mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
462mm/an
PET
1 055mm
AET
797mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
223cm
Forest
85%
Crops
35%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)