HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080561640
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 : Tucker
Sub-basin area
22,6km²
Upstream area
1 808,1km²
Discharge
38,03m³/s
Mean elev.
569m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Blackwater River1267 km²
- Bassin de Shavers Fork519 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 22.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Blackwater
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
311 distinct species · 2 970 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 : 36 espèces reliées par 112 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.4%, 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°
9,8°C
Annual rain
1 239mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
677mm/an
PET
1 076mm
AET
900mm
Mean slope
8,8°
Water table
404cm
Forest
100%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)