HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080583180
Bassin de Rappahannock 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 : Culpeper, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Stafford
Sub-basin area
236,6km²
Upstream area
4 269,8km²
Discharge
63,7m³/s
Mean elev.
69m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rappahannock River2237 km²
- Bassin de Rapidan River666 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Stafford118.8 km²50.2% of basin
- 90.4 km²38.2% of basin
- 27.6 km²11.6% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Upper Rappahannock
IUCN VEasement
5.11 km² overlap
The Nature Conservancy
IUCN VEasement
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 221 distinct species · 176 672 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 Rappahannock River : 30 espèces reliées par 98 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.0%, 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°
13,2°C
Annual rain
1 055mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
434mm/an
PET
1 184mm
AET
858mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
118cm
Forest
71%
Crops
10%
Urban
44%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)