HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080594060
Bassin de Dix 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 7 administrative regions : Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln +2
Sub-basin area
1 139,5km²
Upstream area
1 139,5km²
Discharge
17,05m³/s
Mean elev.
304m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lincoln510.6 km²44.8% of basin
- 235.6 km²20.7% of basin
- 188.5 km²16.5% of basin
- 130.7 km²11.5% of basin
- Mercer63.0 km²5.5% of basin
- 11.8 km²1.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Cedar Creek Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.23 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.65 km² overlap
Dix River
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.62 km² overlap
Bouteloua Barrens
IUCN VState Nature Preserve
1.05 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
0.25 km² overlap
Kentucky River Palisades
IUCN VEasement
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 160 distinct species · 71 050 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 Dix River : 26 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.4%, 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°
12,9°C
Annual rain
1 248mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
469mm/an
PET
1 166mm
AET
931mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
149cm
Forest
27%
Crops
51%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)