HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080612880
Bassin · #7080612880
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 3 administrative regions : Barren, Edmonson, Warren
Sub-basin area
405,2km²
Upstream area
405,3km²
Discharge
6,04m³/s
Mean elev.
199m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Warren183.9 km²45.4% of basin
- 147.8 km²36.5% of basin
- 73.6 km²18.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Mammoth Cave
IUCN IINational Park
2.13 km² overlap
Mammoth Cave National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
1.36 km² overlap
Cave Springs Caverns
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
620 distinct species · 12 787 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 · #7080612880 : 33 espèces reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
13,7°C
Annual rain
1 302mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
471mm/an
PET
1 222mm
AET
956mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
88cm
Forest
6%
Crops
54%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)