HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080657970

Bassin de Hiwassee 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 8 administrative regions : Cherokee, Clay, Habersham, Macon, Rabun +3

20% lakePfafstetter: 74262409

Sub-basin area

1 087,7km²

Upstream area

1 087,7km²

Discharge

33,08m³/s

Mean elev.

754m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Hanging Dog Creek126 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Clay
North Carolina · United States
488.4 km²
44.9% of basin
Towns
Georgia · United States
414.4 km²
38.1% of basin
Cherokee
North Carolina · United States
129.7 km²
11.9% of basin
Union
Georgia · United States
52.5 km²
4.8% of basin
Rabun
Georgia · United States
1.7 km²
0.2% of basin
Macon
North Carolina · United States
0.6 km²
0.1% of basin
Habersham
Georgia · United States
0.1 km²
0.0% of basin
White
Georgia · United States
0.0 km²
0.0% of basin

13 intersecting protected areas

Swallow Creek
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
73.42 km² overlap
Brasstown
IUCN Ib
Wilderness
33.64 km² overlap
Southern Nantahala
IUCN Ib
Wilderness
26.59 km² overlap
Tray Mountain
IUCN Ib
Wilderness
10.05 km² overlap
Mark Trail
IUCN Ib
Wilderness
6.60 km² overlap
Plott Cove
IUCN Ia
Research Natural Area
1.28 km² overlap
Poorhouse Mountain
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.51 km² overlap
Land Trust for the Little Tennessee
IUCN V
Preserve
0.22 km² overlap
Allbone Branch
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.15 km² overlap

4 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Chattahoochee
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.09 km² overlap
Eller Seep Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
0.05 km² overlap
Reed Branch Wet Meadow
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
0.03 km² overlap
Reed Branch Wet Meadow
IUCN V
Easement
0.02 km² overlap

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

Species present

3 461 distinct species · 143 768 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Hiwassee River : 26 espèces reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.085

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°

12,1°C

Annual rain

1 684mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,28

Runoff

928mm/an

PET

1 206mm

AET

1 066mm

Mean slope

11,5°

Water table

390cm

Forest

97%

Crops

Urban

Protected

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