HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080663440
Bassin de Pacolet 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 7 administrative regions : Cherokee, Greenville, Henderson, Polk, Rutherford +2
Sub-basin area
1 338,1km²
Upstream area
1 338,1km²
Discharge
25,14m³/s
Mean elev.
280m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 826.8 km²61.8% of basin
- Polk177.3 km²13.2% of basin
- Union137.2 km²10.3% of basin
- Cherokee109.8 km²8.2% of basin
- 72.9 km²5.5% of basin
- Henderson12.6 km²0.9% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.1% of basin
20 intersecting protected areas
North Saluda Watershed
IUCN VWatershed
10.95 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
6.97 km² overlap
Greenspace of Fairview
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
5.38 km² overlap
Preserve
2.66 km² overlap
Landrum Watershed
IUCN VWatershed
2.29 km² overlap
North Saluda Watershed
IUCN VWatershed
1.80 km² overlap
Cotton Patch Tract
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.72 km² overlap
Pacolet Area Conservancy
IUCN VPreserve
1.55 km² overlap
Melrose Mountain Plant
IUCN VConservation Preserve
1.33 km² overlap
11 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Pacolet River
IUCN IIIHeritage Preserve
1.12 km² overlap
Heritage Preserve
0.66 km² overlap
Town of Tryon Watershed
IUCN VWatershed
0.66 km² overlap
Peters Creek
IUCN IIIHeritage Preserve
0.65 km² overlap
Four Columns
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.51 km² overlap
Santee Cooper Tract
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.44 km² overlap
Patterson Property
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.22 km² overlap
Ludwick Property
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.06 km² overlap
Scott Property
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.03 km² overlap
Poliakoff Property
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.02 km² overlap
Green River Game L
IUCN VState Conservation Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 908 distinct species · 329 640 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 Pacolet River : 26 espèces reliées par 89 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
15,1°C
Annual rain
1 337mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
593mm/an
PET
1 314mm
AET
1 011mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
191cm
Forest
58%
Crops
13%
Urban
7%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)