HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080542550
Bassin de Youghiogheny 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 2 administrative regions : Fayette, Somerset
Sub-basin area
298,9km²
Upstream area
2 932,3km²
Discharge
54,65m³/s
Mean elev.
595m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Casselman River1204 km²
- Bassin de Youghiogheny River1108 km²
- Bassin de Laurel Hill Creek322 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fayette264.3 km²88.3% of basin
- Somerset35.0 km²11.7% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Ohiopyle
IUCN VState Park
79.19 km² overlap
Bear Run
IUCN VNature Reserve
19.96 km² overlap
Fort Necessity
IUCN IIINational Battlefield
2.24 km² overlap
Beaver Creek
IUCN VNatural Area
0.88 km² overlap
Bear Run
IUCN VNature Reserve
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 192 distinct species · 87 969 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Youghiogheny River : 27 espèces reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.9%, 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°
8,7°C
Annual rain
1 154mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
604mm/an
PET
1 013mm
AET
839mm
Mean slope
8,3°
Water table
385cm
Forest
100%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
32%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)