HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080615860
Bassin de Upper Castor 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 3 administrative regions : Bollinger, Stoddard, Wayne
Sub-basin area
616km²
Upstream area
616km²
Discharge
11,43m³/s
Mean elev.
121m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 434.2 km²70.5% of basin
- 122.7 km²19.9% of basin
- Wayne59.3 km²9.6% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Duck Creek
IUCN VConservation Area
24.59 km² overlap
Mingo
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
8.34 km² overlap
Crowley's Ridge
IUCN VConservation Area
7.73 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.40 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.65 km² overlap
Aquilla
IUCN VAccess
0.36 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.32 km² overlap
Gipsy Towersite
IUCN VState Conservation Area or Park
0.17 km² overlap
Mingo National Wildlif
IUCN IbNational Wildlife Refuge
0.03 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
State Conservation Area or Park
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
940 distinct species · 69 871 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Upper Castor River : 20 espèces reliées par 60 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.8%, 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°
13,8°C
Annual rain
1 204mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
580mm/an
PET
1 236mm
AET
921mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
73cm
Forest
19%
Crops
52%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)