HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080594650
Bassin de Cowpasture 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 : Alleghany, Augusta, Bath, Botetourt, Highland +2
Sub-basin area
1 211,5km²
Upstream area
1 211,5km²
Discharge
16,52m³/s
Mean elev.
663m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Bath607.3 km²50.1% of basin
- Highland454.4 km²37.5% of basin
- Alleghany129.2 km²10.7% of basin
- 14.7 km²1.2% of basin
- 3.7 km²0.3% of basin
- Pendleton1.7 km²0.1% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.1% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Highland
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
49.12 km² overlap
Rough Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness
37.74 km² overlap
Rich Hole
IUCN IbWilderness
14.47 km² overlap
The Nature Conservancy
IUCN VEasement
11.94 km² overlap
Warm Springs Mountain
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
7.50 km² overlap
Ramseys Draft
IUCN IbWilderness
3.72 km² overlap
Easement
1.52 km² overlap
Ramseys Draft
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
1.05 km² overlap
Douthat
IUCN IIIState Park
0.77 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 791 distinct species · 56 535 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 Cowpasture River : 29 espèces reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
10,5°C
Annual rain
1 066mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
452mm/an
PET
1 115mm
AET
844mm
Mean slope
10,0°
Water table
419cm
Forest
100%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)