HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080598500
Bassin de New 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 : Bland, Craig, Giles, Mercer, Monroe +2
Sub-basin area
1 974,8km²
Upstream area
10 653,1km²
Discharge
186,37m³/s
Mean elev.
746m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de New River879 km²
- Bassin de Walker Creek808 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Monroe591.6 km²29.9% of basin
- Giles382.6 km²19.4% of basin
- 351.6 km²17.8% of basin
- Mercer307.7 km²15.6% of basin
- 178.5 km²9.0% of basin
- Tazewell163.7 km²8.3% of basin
- Craig0.1 km²0.0% of basin
15 intersecting protected areas
Bluestone Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
64.00 km² overlap
Bluestone
IUCN VRecreation Area
63.56 km² overlap
Hunting Camp Creek
IUCN IbWilderness
33.32 km² overlap
Peters Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness
18.29 km² overlap
Mountain Lake
IUCN IbWilderness
9.40 km² overlap
Potts Creek
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
6.52 km² overlap
Tate Lohr
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
4.20 km² overlap
Chestnut Ridge
IUCN VState Natural Area Preserve
3.34 km² overlap
Kimberling Creek
IUCN IbWilderness
2.90 km² overlap
6 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Beartown
IUCN IbWilderness
1.16 km² overlap
Bluestone
IUCN IIIState Park
0.65 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.33 km² overlap
Garden Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness
0.32 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.24 km² overlap
Pipestem Resort
IUCN IIIState Park
0.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 634 distinct species · 213 663 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 New River : 21 espèces reliées par 79 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
10,6°C
Annual rain
990mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
512mm/an
PET
1 112mm
AET
814mm
Mean slope
10,3°
Water table
456cm
Forest
90%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)