HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080660630
Bassin de Cape Fear 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 2 administrative regions : Cumberland, Harnett
Sub-basin area
554,7km²
Upstream area
11 591,6km²
Discharge
85,24m³/s
Mean elev.
44m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cape Fear River1485 km²
- Bassin de Little River1226 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Cumberland552.5 km²99.6% of basin
- 2.2 km²0.4% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
0.49 km² overlap
Sandhills
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.15 km² overlap
Blounts Creek-CH2MHill
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.08 km² overlap
Us-Nc-40-4
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.07 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.05 km² overlap
Cross Creek-MLK
IUCN Not AssignedPark
0.02 km² overlap
Cross Creek Garden
IUCN VGarden
0.01 km² overlap
Freedom Memorial
IUCN VPark
0.01 km² overlap
Woodland
IUCN VPark
0.01 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Grannis
IUCN VPark
0.01 km² overlap
Maiden Lane
IUCN VPark
0.01 km² overlap
Park
0.01 km² overlap
Pine Valley
IUCN VPark
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 426 distinct species · 168 349 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 Cape Fear River : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 87 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.2%, 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°
15,9°C
Annual rain
1 190mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
298mm/an
PET
1 289mm
AET
987mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
39cm
Forest
16%
Crops
11%
Urban
20%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)