HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080585050
Bassin de Gauley 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 1 administrative regions : Nicholas
Sub-basin area
105km²
Upstream area
2 109,9km²
Discharge
40,89m³/s
Mean elev.
560m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Muddlety Creek379 km²
- Bassin de Hominy Creek270 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Nicholas105.1 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Summersville
IUCN VRecreation Area
31.39 km² overlap
Summersville Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
22.74 km² overlap
Gauley River
IUCN VNational Recreation Area
4.43 km² overlap
Carnifex Ferry
IUCN IIIBattlefield State Park
1.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
903 distinct species · 11 373 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Gauley River : 31 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.5%, 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°
10,6°C
Annual rain
1 196mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
489mm/an
PET
1 112mm
AET
907mm
Mean slope
6,4°
Water table
336cm
Forest
100%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
35%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)