HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080657840
Bassin de Valley 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 : Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon
Sub-basin area
315,1km²
Upstream area
315,1km²
Discharge
9,56m³/s
Mean elev.
766m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Cherokee302.4 km²96.0% of basin
- Graham7.0 km²2.2% of basin
- Clay3.2 km²1.0% of basin
- Macon2.5 km²0.8% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Beaver Creek
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
3.76 km² overlap
Marble Creek
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.67 km² overlap
Highfall Branch
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.59 km² overlap
Welch Farm
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 469 distinct species · 17 318 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Valley River : 28 espèces reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.0%, 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°
11,9°C
Annual rain
1 637mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,26
Runoff
952mm/an
PET
1 202mm
AET
1 051mm
Mean slope
12,2°
Water table
393cm
Forest
100%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)