HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080636550
Bassin de Cane 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 : Buncombe, Madison, Mitchell, Unicoi, Yancey
Sub-basin area
406,9km²
Upstream area
406,9km²
Discharge
10,56m³/s
Mean elev.
1 076m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 402.6 km²98.9% of basin
- Madison3.0 km²0.7% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.1% of basin
- Mitchell0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Preserve
2.13 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.78 km² overlap
Watershed Protection Area
0.61 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
0.43 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 824 distinct species · 90 432 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Cane River : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.4%, 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°
10,2°C
Annual rain
1 400mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,22
Runoff
720mm/an
PET
1 073mm
AET
950mm
Mean slope
15,7°
Water table
542cm
Forest
100%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)