HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080618880
Bassin de Cumberland 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 11 administrative regions : Bell, Claiborne, Clay, Harlan, Knox +6
Sub-basin area
3 150,9km²
Upstream area
3 150,9km²
Discharge
48,29m³/s
Mean elev.
530m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1058.9 km²33.6% of basin
- 834.3 km²26.5% of basin
- Knox811.6 km²25.7% of basin
- Whitley277.8 km²8.8% of basin
- 119.1 km²3.8% of basin
- Claiborne35.1 km²1.1% of basin
- 5.0 km²0.2% of basin
- Lee3.1 km²0.1% of basin
3 moreFull L2 list
- Wise3.0 km² · 0.1%
- Clay2.6 km² · 0.1%
- Leslie1.5 km² · 0.0%
30 intersecting protected areas
Black Mountain
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
75.42 km² overlap
Tackett Creek
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
19.38 km² overlap
Blanton Forest
IUCN VState Nature Preserve
12.19 km² overlap
Hensley-Pine Mountain
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
11.07 km² overlap
Shillalah Creek
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
10.18 km² overlap
The Narrows
IUCN VPreserve
9.73 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
7.52 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
6.13 km² overlap
Bad Branch
IUCN VState Nature Preserve
5.14 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Salt Tract Gap
IUCN VPreserve
4.88 km² overlap
Pine Mountain State Park
IUCN VNature Preserve
3.96 km² overlap
Bad Branch Macrosite Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
3.22 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
3.08 km² overlap
Forest
3.00 km² overlap
Callaway Gap
IUCN VPreserve
2.27 km² overlap
Nature Preserve
2.09 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.64 km² overlap
Gaines Tract of Blanton
IUCN VForest
1.56 km² overlap
Hi Lewis Pine Barrens
IUCN VState Nature Preserve
1.08 km² overlap
Lake
0.75 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Knox, KY
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.68 km² overlap
Pine Mountain Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.59 km² overlap
Cumberland Gap
IUCN VINational Historical Park
0.52 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.44 km² overlap
Bad Branch
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.44 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Knox, KY
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.43 km² overlap
Cumberland River Bottoms
IUCN VPreserve
0.38 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Whitley, KY
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.36 km² overlap
Mill Branch Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.33 km² overlap
Easement
0.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 912 distinct species · 38 973 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 Cumberland River : 32 espèces reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
12,1°C
Annual rain
1 299mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
500mm/an
PET
1 177mm
AET
946mm
Mean slope
14,1°
Water table
542cm
Forest
96%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)