HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080580930
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 4 administrative regions : Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Raleigh
Sub-basin area
1 356km²
Upstream area
22 582km²
Discharge
388,89m³/s
Mean elev.
448m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de New River1773 km²
- Bassin de Gauley River580 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 818.2 km²60.3% of basin
- Fayette466.1 km²34.4% of basin
- 68.6 km²5.1% of basin
- Boone3.9 km²0.3% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Plum Orchard
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
12.43 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201242
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.66 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201404A
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.39 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201320A
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.37 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201403A
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.34 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201321A
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.30 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201405A
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.07 km² overlap
Wvlt-003
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 147 distinct species · 216 831 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 : 20 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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 154mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
401mm/an
PET
1 123mm
AET
892mm
Mean slope
15,0°
Water table
577cm
Forest
97%
Crops
1%
Urban
2%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)