HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080647840
Bassin de Tar 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 : Beaufort, Edgecombe, Martin, Pitt, Wilson
Sub-basin area
1 172,4km²
Upstream area
7 525,9km²
Discharge
105,42m³/s
Mean elev.
19m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Town Creek496 km²
- Bassin de Tar River145 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 815.5 km²69.6% of basin
- 268.1 km²22.9% of basin
- 40.2 km²3.4% of basin
- Martin39.3 km²3.4% of basin
- Wilson8.8 km²0.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Preserve
0.53 km² overlap
Gaitlin Swamp
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.24 km² overlap
Conetoe Creek Buffer Site
IUCN Not AssignedBuffer
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 910 distinct species · 121 372 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Tar River : 30 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
15,7°C
Annual rain
1 224mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
490mm/an
PET
1 293mm
AET
999mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
14cm
Forest
32%
Crops
36%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)