HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080566460
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 6 administrative regions : Braxton, Gilmer, Lewis, Randolph, Upshur +1
Sub-basin area
1 031,2km²
Upstream area
1 031,3km²
Discharge
19,94m³/s
Mean elev.
399m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 384.2 km²37.2% of basin
- Lewis228.1 km²22.1% of basin
- Gilmer205.4 km²19.9% of basin
- Upshur160.0 km²15.5% of basin
- Webster54.3 km²5.3% of basin
- Randolph0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Burnsville
IUCN VRecreation Area
53.70 km² overlap
Burnsville Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
53.69 km² overlap
Holly River
IUCN VState Park
2.01 km² overlap
West Virginia
IUCN Not AssignedWildlife Center
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 474 distinct species · 15 863 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 78 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
10,9°C
Annual rain
1 257mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
585mm/an
PET
1 146mm
AET
931mm
Mean slope
11,1°
Water table
343cm
Forest
100%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)