HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080651460
Bassin de 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 3 administrative regions : Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea
Sub-basin area
50,2km²
Upstream area
52 727,9km²
Discharge
1 266,56m³/s
Mean elev.
242m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tennessee River2008 km²
- Bassin de Hiwassee River1448 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Hamilton31.5 km²62.8% of basin
- 10.3 km²20.5% of basin
- Meigs8.4 km²16.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Hiwassee
IUCN VRefuge
0.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
475 distinct species · 92 432 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 Tennessee River : 28 espèces reliées par 59 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
14,5°C
Annual rain
1 401mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
773mm/an
PET
1 292mm
AET
991mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
188cm
Forest
66%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)