HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080659380
Bassin de Lookout Creek
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 : Dade, De Kalb, Hamilton, Marion, Walker
Sub-basin area
515,8km²
Upstream area
515,8km²
Discharge
10,94m³/s
Mean elev.
374m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 320.4 km²62.1% of basin
- 131.4 km²25.5% of basin
- Hamilton45.8 km²8.9% of basin
- Walker16.1 km²3.1% of basin
- Marion2.1 km²0.4% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Cloudland Canyon
IUCN IIIState Park
12.18 km² overlap
Lula Lake
IUCN VLand Trust Site
2.37 km² overlap
Tennessee River Gorge Trust
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
1.48 km² overlap
Fox Mountain
IUCN VPreserve
1.48 km² overlap
Georgia-Alabama Land Trust Easement #891
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
1.12 km² overlap
Cummings Cove
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.35 km² overlap
Lula Falls Easement 1
IUCN VEasement
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 998 distinct species · 179 152 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Lookout Creek : 37 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
14,2°C
Annual rain
1 467mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
664mm/an
PET
1 268mm
AET
1 006mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
329cm
Forest
86%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)