HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080653160

Bassin de Catawba 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 9 administrative regions : Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Gaston +4

63% lakePfafstetter: 73240903

Sub-basin area

2 289,3km²

Upstream area

4 969,1km²

Discharge

85,9m³/s

Mean elev.

312m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Catawba River141 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Lower Creek257 km²
Bassin de Catawba River6 km²

9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Catawba
North Carolina · United States
562.3 km²
24.6% of basin
Alexander
North Carolina · United States
463.7 km²
20.3% of basin
Caldwell
North Carolina · United States
352.8 km²
15.4% of basin
Iredell
North Carolina · United States
338.1 km²
14.8% of basin
Mecklenburg
North Carolina · United States
291.1 km²
12.7% of basin
Burke
North Carolina · United States
169.7 km²
7.4% of basin
Lincoln
North Carolina · United States
78.1 km²
3.4% of basin
Gaston
North Carolina · United States
32.2 km²
1.4% of basin

1 moreFull L2 list

Wilkes1.5 km² · 0.1%

10 intersecting protected areas

North American Land Trust
IUCN Not Assigned
Easement
1.76 km² overlap
Auten
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
1.09 km² overlap
Miranda Rd
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
0.25 km² overlap
McIntyre Creek
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.21 km² overlap
UT Buffalo Shoals Creek-Gray Farm
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.09 km² overlap
Reeds Creek
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.06 km² overlap
Lyle Creek
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.04 km² overlap
Bunker Hill Covered Bridge
IUCN III
Historic Site
0.04 km² overlap
Lake Davidson
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
0.04 km² overlap

1 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Rozzelles Ferry
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
0.02 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

5 083 distinct species · 559 544 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Catawba River : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.109

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

14,4°C

Annual rain

1 211mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,05

Runoff

500mm/an

PET

1 269mm

AET

958mm

Mean slope

2,8°

Water table

144cm

Forest

45%

Crops

13%

Urban

15%

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)