HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080635420
Bassin de Clay Creek
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 1 administrative regions : Cocke
Sub-basin area
84,1km²
Upstream area
6 710,7km²
Discharge
175,95m³/s
Mean elev.
358m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pigeon River1754 km²
- Bassin de French Broad River835 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 84.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Rankin Bottom
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
180 distinct species · 723 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Clay Creek : 38 espèces reliées par 79 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.0%, 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°
13,5°C
Annual rain
1 146mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
689mm/an
PET
1 261mm
AET
928mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
241cm
Forest
78%
Crops
29%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)