HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080631220
Bassin de Tennessee 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 5 administrative regions : Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Houston, Humphreys
Sub-basin area
1 080km²
Upstream area
100 464,5km²
Discharge
2 172,66m³/s
Mean elev.
158m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tennessee River931 km²
- Bassin de Duck River206 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Benton561.6 km²52.0% of basin
- Humphreys488.7 km²45.2% of basin
- Decatur14.3 km²1.3% of basin
- Carroll13.4 km²1.2% of basin
- Houston2.1 km²0.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Camden
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
15.04 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
13.68 km² overlap
Tennessee
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
11.81 km² overlap
Harmon Creek
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 258 distinct species · 106 264 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Tennessee River : 31 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
14,1°C
Annual rain
1 368mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
351mm/an
PET
1 289mm
AET
993mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
147cm
Forest
76%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)