HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080669130
Bassin de Catawba 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 5 administrative regions : Chester, Lancaster, Mecklenburg, Union, York
Sub-basin area
1 170,6km²
Upstream area
9 880,4km²
Discharge
154,85m³/s
Mean elev.
179m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Crowders Creek831 km²
- Bassin de Sugar Creek713 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lancaster580.7 km²49.6% of basin
- Union423.2 km²36.2% of basin
- York69.2 km²5.9% of basin
- Chester62.6 km²5.3% of basin
- 34.8 km²3.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Forest
4.22 km² overlap
Conservation Preserve
0.24 km² overlap
Providence Flat Swamp
IUCN Not AssignedForest
0.07 km² overlap
Providence Road
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.03 km² overlap
Cane Creek Park Piedmont Prairie
IUCN IIIRestoration Area
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 603 distinct species · 255 456 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 Catawba River : 27 espèces reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
15,6°C
Annual rain
1 178mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
381mm/an
PET
1 299mm
AET
953mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
93cm
Forest
79%
Crops
12%
Urban
14%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)