HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080566360
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 4 administrative regions : Calhoun, Gilmer, Ritchie, Wirt
Sub-basin area
334,8km²
Upstream area
2 643,6km²
Discharge
43,41m³/s
Mean elev.
292m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cedar Creek456 km²
- Bassin de Right Fork Steer Creek436 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Calhoun266.6 km²79.6% of basin
- 64.6 km²19.3% of basin
- 3.8 km²1.1% of basin
- Gilmer0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Little Kanawha
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
30.97 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
601 distinct species · 2 718 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 95 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 10.0%, 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°
11,3°C
Annual rain
1 145mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
413mm/an
PET
1 161mm
AET
889mm
Mean slope
8,7°
Water table
294cm
Forest
100%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)