HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080651530
Bassin de Rock Creek
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 : Bledsoe, Hamilton, Rhea
Sub-basin area
287km²
Upstream area
287km²
Discharge
6,85m³/s
Mean elev.
468m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 112.2 km²39.1% of basin
- Hamilton102.2 km²35.6% of basin
- 72.6 km²25.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201327A
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.12 km² overlap
Chickamauga
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 083 distinct species · 15 911 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Rock Creek : 36 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.3%, 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°
13,5°C
Annual rain
1 477mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
752mm/an
PET
1 218mm
AET
992mm
Mean slope
5,6°
Water table
288cm
Forest
67%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)