HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080649690
Bassin de Little 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 4 administrative regions : Blount, Graham, Sevier, Swain
Sub-basin area
522,5km²
Upstream area
4 138,1km²
Discharge
130,5m³/s
Mean elev.
854m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Little Tennessee River1721 km²
- Bassin de Tuckasegee River383 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 329.4 km²63.0% of basin
- Graham191.8 km²36.7% of basin
- Blount1.2 km²0.2% of basin
- Sevier0.2 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Great Smoky Mountains
IUCN IINational Park
322.87 km² overlap
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
313.15 km² overlap
Tapoco Lands Conservat
IUCN VConservation Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 526 distinct species · 19 333 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Little Tennessee River : 33 espèces reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
11,4°C
Annual rain
1 600mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
904mm/an
PET
1 164mm
AET
1 026mm
Mean slope
15,2°
Water table
522cm
Forest
95%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
60%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)