HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080582300
Bassin de Cherry 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 : Greenbrier, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Webster
Sub-basin area
429,5km²
Upstream area
429,6km²
Discharge
8,25m³/s
Mean elev.
998m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 287.0 km²66.8% of basin
- Nicholas127.3 km²29.6% of basin
- Pocahontas13.4 km²3.1% of basin
- Webster2.0 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cranberry
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
107.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
774 distinct species · 6 912 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Cherry River : 29 espèces reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.7%, 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°
8,6°C
Annual rain
1 339mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
594mm/an
PET
1 000mm
AET
896mm
Mean slope
10,9°
Water table
498cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)