HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080632110
Bassin de Yadkin 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 : Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes
Sub-basin area
278,6km²
Upstream area
1 587,4km²
Discharge
27,57m³/s
Mean elev.
417m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Yadkin River1062 km²
- Bassin de Reddies River247 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Wilkes277.9 km²99.8% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
705 distinct species · 9 523 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Yadkin River : 27 espèces reliées par 100 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
13,0°C
Annual rain
1 244mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
530mm/an
PET
1 243mm
AET
970mm
Mean slope
5,6°
Water table
268cm
Forest
97%
Crops
7%
Urban
2%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)