HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080647520
Bassin de French Broad 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 7 administrative regions : Buncombe, Greenville, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson +2
Sub-basin area
2 076km²
Upstream area
2 076km²
Discharge
66,11m³/s
Mean elev.
821m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 798.7 km²38.5% of basin
- Henderson683.8 km²32.9% of basin
- 528.5 km²25.5% of basin
- 58.4 km²2.8% of basin
- Jackson3.3 km²0.2% of basin
- 3.1 km²0.2% of basin
- Pickens0.2 km²0.0% of basin
23 intersecting protected areas
Pisgah National
IUCN VGame Refuge
171.59 km² overlap
Conservation Fund
IUCN VPreserve
1.71 km² overlap
Poinsett
IUCN VReservoir
1.48 km² overlap
North American Land Trust
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
1.31 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
1.23 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.79 km² overlap
Easement
0.71 km² overlap
Cedar Mountain Bog Plant
IUCN VIConservation Preserve
0.17 km² overlap
Shining Rock
IUCN IbWilderness
0.16 km² overlap
14 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Watershed Protection
0.15 km² overlap
Middle Prong
IUCN IbWilderness
0.13 km² overlap
Carl Sandburg Home Nationa
IUCN IIINational Historic Site
0.09 km² overlap
Mcclures Bog Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.08 km² overlap
Bat Fork Bog Plant
IUCN VConservation Preserve
0.06 km² overlap
Mud Creek (Brevard Church Property)
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.06 km² overlap
Biltmore Technology Center
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.05 km² overlap
Lewis Creek
IUCN VPreserve
0.03 km² overlap
Clear Creek
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.03 km² overlap
Riverlink
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Jocassee Gorges
IUCN VWildlife Management Area Other
0.01 km² overlap
Watson-Cooper
IUCN VIHeritage Preserve
0.00 km² overlap
Gorges
IUCN VState Park
0.00 km² overlap
Wilderness Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 766 distinct species · 1 674 668 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 French Broad River : 23 espèces reliées par 59 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.9%, 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°
12,1°C
Annual rain
1 528mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,21
Runoff
846mm/an
PET
1 176mm
AET
1 028mm
Mean slope
8,9°
Water table
362cm
Forest
89%
Crops
10%
Urban
9%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)