HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080613530
Bassin de Rockcastle 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 : Clay, Garrard, Jackson, Laurel, Madison +2
Sub-basin area
1 968,4km²
Upstream area
1 968,7km²
Discharge
28,56m³/s
Mean elev.
363m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 640.7 km²32.5% of basin
- 626.7 km²31.8% of basin
- Jackson500.6 km²25.4% of basin
- Pulaski143.1 km²7.3% of basin
- Clay57.6 km²2.9% of basin
- Madison0.7 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Watershed
4.77 km² overlap
Horse Lick Creek Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
2.31 km² overlap
Watershed
2.23 km² overlap
Easement
2.04 km² overlap
Conservation Area
1.22 km² overlap
Horse Lick Creek
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.77 km² overlap
Rock Creek
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.77 km² overlap
Frances J. Palk
IUCN VState Nature Preserve
0.61 km² overlap
State Nature Preserve
0.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 506 distinct species · 69 366 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 de Rockcastle River : 32 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.4%, 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°
12,6°C
Annual rain
1 256mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
459mm/an
PET
1 173mm
AET
937mm
Mean slope
6,4°
Water table
274cm
Forest
81%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)