HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080552930
Bassin de Opequon 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 : Berkeley, Clarke, Frederick, Jefferson, Winchester
Sub-basin area
896,1km²
Upstream area
896,2km²
Discharge
10,51m³/s
Mean elev.
189m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Berkeley382.9 km²42.7% of basin
- Frederick281.5 km²31.4% of basin
- Jefferson117.0 km²13.0% of basin
- Clarke92.1 km²10.3% of basin
- 23.5 km²2.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Frd-Vof-4029
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 097 distinct species · 275 463 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Opequon Creek : 23 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
11,4°C
Annual rain
958mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
373mm/an
PET
1 123mm
AET
805mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
147cm
Forest
38%
Crops
37%
Urban
16%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)