HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080593360
Bassin de Chaplin 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 6 administrative regions : Anderson, Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Nelson +1
Sub-basin area
710,6km²
Upstream area
710,6km²
Discharge
10,27m³/s
Mean elev.
252m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mercer226.2 km²31.8% of basin
- Washington220.0 km²30.9% of basin
- 115.7 km²16.3% of basin
- Anderson105.6 km²14.9% of basin
- 43.4 km²6.1% of basin
- Marion0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
763 distinct species · 21 915 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Chaplin River : 28 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
12,8°C
Annual rain
1 221mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
455mm/an
PET
1 187mm
AET
927mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
99cm
Forest
55%
Crops
41%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)