HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080652390
Bassin de Rocky 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 : Cabarrus, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan
Sub-basin area
724,6km²
Upstream area
724,6km²
Discharge
10,43m³/s
Mean elev.
219m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 308.6 km²42.6% of basin
- 293.6 km²40.5% of basin
- 75.7 km²10.4% of basin
- Rowan46.7 km²6.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sherman Branch
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.85 km² overlap
West Branch
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.37 km² overlap
Coddle Creek
IUCN IVRestoration Site
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 406 distinct species · 318 461 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Rocky River : 28 espèces reliées par 83 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.2%, 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°
15,1°C
Annual rain
1 143mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
459mm/an
PET
1 292mm
AET
934mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
98cm
Forest
34%
Crops
11%
Urban
40%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)