HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080653890
Bassin de Broad 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 5 administrative regions : Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford
Sub-basin area
724,3km²
Upstream area
724,3km²
Discharge
16,39m³/s
Mean elev.
497m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 480.4 km²66.3% of basin
- 102.4 km²14.1% of basin
- 71.8 km²9.9% of basin
- Henderson66.8 km²9.2% of basin
- Polk3.0 km²0.4% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Weed Patch Mountain
IUCN VPreserve
5.39 km² overlap
Florence
IUCN VPreserve
2.25 km² overlap
Hickory Nut Gorge
IUCN VConservation Easement
1.42 km² overlap
Easement
1.27 km² overlap
Preserve
0.85 km² overlap
Buffalo Creek
IUCN IIIPark
0.80 km² overlap
North American Land Trust
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.69 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.38 km² overlap
Morgan Creek
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 204 distinct species · 82 565 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Broad River : 21 espèces reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
13,7°C
Annual rain
1 353mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
701mm/an
PET
1 255mm
AET
1 008mm
Mean slope
8,5°
Water table
383cm
Forest
94%
Crops
5%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)