HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080651020
Bassin de Yadkin 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 8 administrative regions : Cabarrus, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Montgomery +3
Sub-basin area
2 062,5km²
Upstream area
10 804,7km²
Discharge
168,36m³/s
Mean elev.
226m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de South Yadkin River2343 km²
- Bassin de Yadkin River597 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1107.0 km²53.7% of basin
- Rowan685.4 km²33.2% of basin
- 94.6 km²4.6% of basin
- Montgomery82.8 km²4.0% of basin
- Forsyth55.1 km²2.7% of basin
- 21.5 km²1.0% of basin
- Randolph11.3 km²0.5% of basin
- 5.0 km²0.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Preserve
0.14 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.06 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 068 distinct species · 229 702 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Yadkin River : 31 espèces reliées par 95 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
15,0°C
Annual rain
1 144mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
418mm/an
PET
1 286mm
AET
937mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
111cm
Forest
39%
Crops
17%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)