HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080597920
Bassin de Buffalo 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 5 administrative regions : Amherst, Augusta, Buckingham, Nelson, Rockbridge
Sub-basin area
1 082,6km²
Upstream area
1 082,6km²
Discharge
14,3m³/s
Mean elev.
379m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Nelson560.7 km²51.8% of basin
- 521.5 km²48.1% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Priest
IUCN IbWilderness
24.26 km² overlap
Three Ridges
IUCN IbWilderness
12.78 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
5.96 km² overlap
Fortune's Cove
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
2.95 km² overlap
Nel-Vof-4086
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.19 km² overlap
Naked Mountain
IUCN VState Natural Area Preserve
1.17 km² overlap
Saint Mary'S
IUCN IbWilderness
0.29 km² overlap
Big Levels National
IUCN VGame Refuge
0.12 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 905 distinct species · 167 660 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 Buffalo River : 26 espèces reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.2%, 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°
12,3°C
Annual rain
1 122mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
418mm/an
PET
1 168mm
AET
882mm
Mean slope
8,1°
Water table
325cm
Forest
99%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)