HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080649870
Bassin de Tuckasegee 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 2 administrative regions : Sevier, Swain
Sub-basin area
382,8km²
Upstream area
1 894,6km²
Discharge
59,33m³/s
Mean elev.
980m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tuckasegee River1024 km²
- Bassin de Raven Fork488 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 381.9 km²99.8% of basin
- Sevier0.9 km²0.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Great Smoky Mountains
IUCN IINational Park
279.12 km² overlap
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
277.22 km² overlap
Lands Creek
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
3.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 438 distinct species · 73 014 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Tuckasegee River : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 65 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
10,8°C
Annual rain
1 609mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,28
Runoff
895mm/an
PET
1 138mm
AET
1 013mm
Mean slope
15,9°
Water table
471cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
72%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)