HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080642790
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 3 administrative regions : Blount, Knox, Loudon
Sub-basin area
529,6km²
Upstream area
24 766km²
Discharge
562,09m³/s
Mean elev.
285m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Little River979 km²
- Bassin de Tennessee River240 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Knox203.2 km²38.4% of basin
- Blount191.7 km²36.2% of basin
- 134.7 km²25.4% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Keller Bend Rd #2
IUCN VPark
0.28 km² overlap
Badget Rd #1
IUCN VPark
0.25 km² overlap
Badget Rd #3
IUCN VPark
0.10 km² overlap
Rogers Island Rd
IUCN VPark
0.08 km² overlap
Luxmore Drive
IUCN VNatural Area
0.05 km² overlap
Badget Rd #2
IUCN VPark
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 690 distinct species · 474 038 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.6%, 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°
14,1°C
Annual rain
1 331mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
774mm/an
PET
1 244mm
AET
965mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
156cm
Forest
47%
Crops
25%
Urban
32%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)