HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080569090
Bassin de 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 7 administrative regions : Cabell, Gallia, Jackson, Kanawha, Mason +2
Sub-basin area
2 131,8km²
Upstream area
31 281,9km²
Discharge
516,72m³/s
Mean elev.
257m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Big Coal River2309 km²
- Bassin · #7080082250290 km²
- Bassin de Kanawha River267 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Putnam762.3 km²35.7% of basin
- Mason477.2 km²22.4% of basin
- 364.0 km²17.1% of basin
- Roane347.8 km²16.3% of basin
- Jackson181.0 km²8.5% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Amherst\Plymouth
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
30.75 km² overlap
Chief Cornstalk
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
27.73 km² overlap
Woodrum Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
6.72 km² overlap
McCausland
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.40 km² overlap
Hungry Beech
IUCN VPreserve
0.54 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 067 distinct species · 85 793 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Kanawha River : 31 espèces reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
11,9°C
Annual rain
1 101mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
354mm/an
PET
1 166mm
AET
877mm
Mean slope
6,7°
Water table
283cm
Forest
95%
Crops
13%
Urban
3%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)