HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080654710
Bassin de Bacon Branch
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 1 administrative regions : Polk
Sub-basin area
9,3km²
Upstream area
5 202,4km²
Discharge
154,33m³/s
Mean elev.
228m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Toccoa River1631 km²
- Bassin de Hiwassee River1281 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Polk9.3 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
258 distinct species · 2 543 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Bacon Branch : 30 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.7%, 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°
14,5°C
Annual rain
1 410mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
793mm/an
PET
1 306mm
AET
1 004mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
82cm
Forest
64%
Crops
38%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)