HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080550910
Bassin de Cheat 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 1 administrative regions : Preston
Sub-basin area
402,5km²
Upstream area
2 885,4km²
Discharge
61,85m³/s
Mean elev.
620m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cheat River422 km²
- Bassin de Cheat River104 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 402.9 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cheat Canyon
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
15.08 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
5.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 544 distinct species · 20 240 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Cheat River : 28 espèces reliées par 79 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.1%, 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°
9,1°C
Annual rain
1 244mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
640mm/an
PET
1 023mm
AET
873mm
Mean slope
8,2°
Water table
382cm
Forest
96%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)