HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080585550
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 4 administrative regions : Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas
Sub-basin area
579,9km²
Upstream area
3 617,6km²
Discharge
64,27m³/s
Mean elev.
468m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Meadow River928 km²
- Bassin de Gauley River105 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Nicholas355.9 km²61.3% of basin
- Fayette165.8 km²28.6% of basin
- 29.9 km²5.1% of basin
- Clay28.8 km²5.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Gauley River
IUCN VNational Recreation Area
14.75 km² overlap
Summersville Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.09 km² overlap
Carnifex Ferry
IUCN IIIBattlefield State Park
0.09 km² overlap
Summersville
IUCN VRecreation Area
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 579 distinct species · 12 470 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 : 34 espèces reliées par 123 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
11,1°C
Annual rain
1 180mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
448mm/an
PET
1 129mm
AET
906mm
Mean slope
14,3°
Water table
541cm
Forest
98%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)