HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080561820
Bassin de Little Kanawha 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 5 administrative regions : Jackson, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt, Wood
Sub-basin area
800,2km²
Upstream area
4 075,6km²
Discharge
61,41m³/s
Mean elev.
277m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 426.0 km²53.2% of basin
- Roane373.4 km²46.6% of basin
- Wood0.7 km²0.1% of basin
- Jackson0.6 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Burning Springs
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
8.76 km² overlap
Lynn Camp
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
8.37 km² overlap
Little Kanawha
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 088 distinct species · 7 401 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Little Kanawha River : 33 espèces reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.9%, 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
1 117mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
379mm/an
PET
1 157mm
AET
876mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
312cm
Forest
99%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)