HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080654910
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 6 administrative regions : Anson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Stanly +1
Sub-basin area
974,2km²
Upstream area
1 987,4km²
Discharge
27,22m³/s
Mean elev.
188m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rocky River725 km²
- Bassin de Irish Buffalo Creek288 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 374.0 km²38.4% of basin
- Union288.9 km²29.7% of basin
- 179.1 km²18.4% of basin
- 79.7 km²8.2% of basin
- Rowan46.9 km²4.8% of basin
- 5.5 km²0.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Preserve
0.02 km² overlap
Hemby Bridge Town Hall
IUCN VOpen Space
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 033 distinct species · 115 190 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 : 25 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
15,3°C
Annual rain
1 155mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
415mm/an
PET
1 303mm
AET
945mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
95cm
Forest
58%
Crops
33%
Urban
7%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)